CMPL 252 - Art as Witness in Eastern Europe and Russia

FC ARHU CD

4 credits
In a journey through literature and film of the 20th and 21st centuries from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, the Czech Republic, and beyond, we will explore ways in which writers and filmmakers as well as ordinary people have borne witness to war, political repression, revolution, and ecological catastrophe. We will consider what bearing witness is and what it can do, and investigate the various strategies and choices entailed in giving expression to individual and collective experience under conditions of violence, upheaval, political repression, and censorship. Taught in English.

This course is appropriate for new students.
This course is cross-listed with RUSS-252