- Spring 2016
Syllabus Description:
By examining fiction, poetry, memoir, diaries, monuments, commix and other aspects of popular culture, this course will explore representations of the Nazi Holocaust.
How has literature imagined and reacted to the persecution of Jews and other marginalized groups - including Gypsies, homosexuals, and people with disabilities?
Among the topics to be covered: bearing witness and survivor testimony; the shaping of collective memory; the second generation; Holocaust education and children's literature; gender and the Holocaust; fantasy and humor in literary responses to catastrophe.
Additional Details:
By examining fiction, poetry, memoirs, diaries, monuments, commix, and other aspects of popular culture, this course will explore literary responses to the Nazi Holocaust. How has literature imagined and reacted to the persecution of Jews and other marginalized groups – including Gypsies,
homosexuals, and people with disabilities? Among the topics to be covered: bearing witness and survivor testimony; the shaping of collective memory; the second generation; Holocaust education and children's literature; gender and the Holocaust; fantasy and humor in representations of catastrophe.
Requirements: final exam, one essay (5-7 pages), short in-class writing and homework assignments. Students may opt to take this as a W course by completing additional writing assignments. Revision, editing, and reworking of essay assignments is an integral part of a W course.