Literature 276 - The Holocaust and Literature

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Bard College

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Human Rights, Jewish Studies This course is based on reading and discussing short fiction and novels by such major writers as Franz Kafka, Primo Levi, Tadeusz Borowski, W. G. Sebald, Aleksandar Ti?sma, and Danilo Kis. Also included is work by Nobel laureates Isaac Bashevis Singer and Imre Kertész. The Holocaust is considered in comparison with other 20th-century genocides, such as those that occurred in the Gulag, communist China, Cambodia, and Rwanda. Students debate questions about the boundaries of art and the literature of extreme situations. Students also examine post-Holocaust reality, the trivialization of tragedy in fashionable simplistic melodramas of the current mass media culture, and political-ideological manipulation (especially in former socialist countries in Eastern Europe).

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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

Calendar System:

Semester

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