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The course that I will be TA-ing in the fall:
THE HOLOCAUST IN MODERN LITERATURE: THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION(3) Caplan, M.
Limit 30 This course will be an advanced-undergraduate, writing-intensive examination of literary, memoiristic, philosophical, and cinematic representations of the Nazi genocide of European Jewry during World War II. In addition to the problems of defining this genocide against larger catastrophes of world war, totalitarianism, racism, and the technologies of mass destruction, we will consider this event as a moment of crisis in the historical, moral, and ideological understanding of European modernity that underscores the limits of language, subjectivity, and representation. Parallel to these discussions we will also consider the Holocaust in the context of Jewish responses to anti-Semitism, the role of the Holocaust in generating subsequent models for Jewish cultural representation, and the role of the Holocaust in underscoring the anomalous position of Jews within the history of modern Europe. Works to be considered will be taken from Czech, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, and Yiddish sources, and will include writers and theorists such as Theodor Adorno, Aharon Appelfeld, Jurek Becker, Tadeuz Borowski, Jacques Derrida, Raul Hilberg, Primo Levi, Georges Perec, Philip Roth, I.B. Singer, Art Spiegelman, and Jirí Weil. All readings and discussions conducted in English
Cross-listed with Jewish Studies, English, and Writing Seminars
Holy fucking shit!
THE HOLOCAUST IN MODERN LITERATURE: THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION(3) Caplan, M.
Limit 30 This course will be an advanced-undergraduate, writing-intensive examination of literary, memoiristic, philosophical, and cinematic representations of the Nazi genocide of European Jewry during World War II. In addition to the problems of defining this genocide against larger catastrophes of world war, totalitarianism, racism, and the technologies of mass destruction, we will consider this event as a moment of crisis in the historical, moral, and ideological understanding of European modernity that underscores the limits of language, subjectivity, and representation. Parallel to these discussions we will also consider the Holocaust in the context of Jewish responses to anti-Semitism, the role of the Holocaust in generating subsequent models for Jewish cultural representation, and the role of the Holocaust in underscoring the anomalous position of Jews within the history of modern Europe. Works to be considered will be taken from Czech, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, and Yiddish sources, and will include writers and theorists such as Theodor Adorno, Aharon Appelfeld, Jurek Becker, Tadeuz Borowski, Jacques Derrida, Raul Hilberg, Primo Levi, Georges Perec, Philip Roth, I.B. Singer, Art Spiegelman, and Jirí Weil. All readings and discussions conducted in English
Cross-listed with Jewish Studies, English, and Writing Seminars
Holy fucking shit!