SCHC 388 H01 22989

HistoryCiv, EngLit, AIU

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Men and women experience history differently. This course explores the way in which this difference operates and can be located in literature, art, and film. In our case, the historical event at the heart of our study is the Holocaust. Some of the questions we’ll tackle include: How do women represent their personal experiences of trauma (and inherited trauma) in literature? How do films about the war and genocide portray women (victims and victimizers)? Do monuments and museums do justice (can they?) to the specificity of the female historical experience? Are there differences in the way in which female and male documentary filmmakers construct their films to retell history? We will study the representation of the Holocaust through a variety of media and genres: documentaries, feature films, museum exhibits, oral histories and some of the classics of Holocaust literature—memoirs, fictions, and graphic novels.