Literature and the Holocaust
NEAR E 441
- Quarters: Winter
- General Education Requirements: VLPA
Examines fiction, poetry, memoir, diaries, monuments, film, and pop culture from several languages and cultural milieus, with emphases on English and Hebrew. Topics include survivor testimony, shaping of collective memory, the second generation, Holocaust education and children’s literature, gender and the Holocaust, and fantasy and humor as responses to catastrophe.