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Aug 20, 2024
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ENGL 364 - Memory, History, Trauma 4 HU, CD, WR
First Semester. How to represent the unspeakable? How to convey trauma without merely producing pleasurable spectacle? This course compares contemporary fiction, graphic novels, film, documentary, and performance art that represent historical events triggered by perceived racial difference – the Holocaust, American slavery, the Japanese American internment. We will discuss how affect is represented and racial differences (re)staged, and explore the psychic and social implications of narrative/visual pleasure and pain. American, Diversity, Post-1900.
Prerequisites & Notes Prerequisite: See headnote above. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Ms. Takada
Credits: 4 hours
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