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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Fall 2022 |
Registration ID | GERMH320A001 |
Course Title | Impossible Representations of the Holocaust in German Drama and Film |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | German |
Instructor | Brust,Imke |
Times and Days | MW 11:30am-01:00pm
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Room Location | HLL201 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2469 This course will provide a historical overview of the Holocaust, its origins, process, and outcomes, and how it has served as a mental map for the construction of contemporary German national identity. In this context, we will explore such topics as notions of memory, collective guilt, trauma, and mourning. In addition, the course will critically engage issues of portrayal and representation of historical memory within the context of Holocaust commemoration by discussing several different plays and films that can be contextualized within the German Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung (working through the past) and more recently ‘memory contests’. Lastly, this course will also explore the tragedy and remembrance of the Holocaust as a transnational phenomenon in the contemporary world. The course is taught in English with an extra session in German. ; Cross-listed: German, Comparative Literature; Enrollment Limit: 20 Humanities, B: Analysis of the Social World, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (; Hav: HU, B, A) |
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