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Class number:
2974
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Title: Literature of Trauma&Resilienc |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 9 |
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Available seats: 6 |
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Start date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 |
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End date: Friday, May 12, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: W: 1:30PM-4:10PM, 115V - 106 |
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Instructor(s): Goldman, Francisco |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written after 1900. |
Course Description:
In this course we explore a literature of fear that responds to traumatic events that we experience collectively and individually, from the nightmare world of the great plagues, contemporary and all the way back to ancient Athens; to the mass cruelties of war, slavery, violent repression and campaigns of terror (wartime bombings, genocides, femicides, "disappearances"); and to the experience of devastating personal loss that so many experience in their lives. This is both a heroic and an intimate literature, that answers at times overwhelming horror with our seemingly most humble yet enduring tool, words; sometimes of pain and grief, shared with others; also, variously, of resistance, memory, refuge, resilience and imaginative transformation. |