Literature 3207 - Responsibility and Cultural Memory

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Bard College

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Human Rights, Integrated Arts This seminar explores how personal narrative, monuments, memorials, and photography produce and document the memory of trauma, at once vividly present and inevitably dependent on our ethical response for its existence. Students discuss some issues of human rights, drawing on the discourses of politics, the media, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. Readings include theoretical texts by Benjamin, Agamben, Blanchot, Caruth, Felman, Alcava, Baer, and LaCapra. Case studies include narratives by Holocaust survivors, such as Szpilman and Levi, and from survivors of the desaparecidos of Latin America. The complexity of response to a variety of visually powerful material-photographs of Civil War battlegrounds, Holocaust sites, and public monuments, for example-is explored.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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