Introduction to the Holocaust: definition / naming; as traumatic event; representability / unspeakability; diverse Holocaust genres in writing andin film; survivor's testimonies and memoirs; the fictionalization of the Holocaust; cultural reappropriations of the Holocaust; the commodificatipn of the Holocaust; the Holocaust and source languages; the translation of Holocaust texts.
UNIT 2. Reading 1.
Short Story: "This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" (Borowski, T.)
UNIT 3. Reading 2.
Extract: chapter 4, "Communicating", from Primo Levi's THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED.
UNIT 4. Reading 3.
Short Story: "The Lady of the Lake" (Malamud, B.)
UNIT 5. Reading 4.
Extract: "Arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau", from Elie Wiesel's NIGHT (NACHT)
UNIT 6. Reading 5.
Extract from Art Spiegelman's graphic novel MAUS.
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