Holocaust Fiction

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Do history and literature collude or collide in reconstructing the concentrationary universe-the death-dominated landscape of the Third Reich? How can the literary imagination convey, much less explain, the unspeakable, unimaginable terrors of the Nazi program of atrocity and extermination? And what place has imaginative literature alongside the fact-bound reconstructions of history? Holocaust fiction puts into words what customarily remains outside the flow of historical narrative: the sufferings, resistances, and aspirations of the individuals ravaged by genocide, survivors whose lives and experiences are left outside of historical accounts. Pre-requisite: sophomore standing. Offered regularly.