Comparative Literature 218 - HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
Spring
2017
01
4.00
Justin Cammy
MW 01:10-02:30
Smith College
41937-S17
SEELYE 206
jcammy@smith.edu
Creative responses to the destruction of European Jewry, differentiating between literature written in extremis in ghettos, concentration/extermination camps, or in hiding, and the vast post-war literature about the Holocaust. How to balance competing claims of individual and collective experience, the rights of the imagination and the pressures for historical accuracy. Selections from a variety of artistic genres (diary, reportage, poetry, novel, graphic novel, film, monuments, museums), and critical theories of representation. All readings in translation.