THE HOLOCAUST IN LITERATURE AND FILM

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This course is a Holocaust (H) elective.This course seeks to understand, through literature and film, the complexity of the Holocaust as revealed through narratives which, unlike more historical accounts, let us into the individuality of human fate. Using both fiction and documentaries, we explore themes of bearing witness, of individual and collective memory, and of the role of language in thinking and speaking about the unspeakable.