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Spring 2013 Middle East G4326 section 001 ARMENIAN GENCIDE HOLOCST MEMRY ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: RESPONSES | |
| Call Number | 76000 |
| Day & Time Location |
W 4:10pm-6:00pm 467 Schermerhorn Hall [SCH] |
| Points | 3 |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Armen Marsoobian |
| Type | SEMINAR |
| Course Description | This course is an investigation of the impact of genocide on the self and the imagination’s representations in literature, film, and video testimony; primary texts will include poetry, memoir, video testimony, film, and visual art. Scholarly methodology will involve readings of literary criticism and theoretical works in the study of trauma, literary theory, and testimony. Among the questions the course will ask are: how does trauma shape imagination and open up access to the site of disaster that is now carried in fragments which inform memory; how do representations of violence shape and inflect aesthetic orientations and literary and artistic forms. In asking these questions, we will engage in the process of formal analysis of texts, psychological and historical contexts (for those texts), and finally ethical assessments about the function and role of these texts in the broader discourse of social thought and historical memory. The course will concern itself with the aftermath of two twentieth century genocides—that of the Armenians in Turkey during World War I and of the Jews in Europe during World War II—both seminal events of the twentieth century that, in various ways became models for ensuing genocides. Students will be permitted to write about other post-genocidal texts with the instructor’s permission. |
| Web Site | CourseWorks |
| Department | Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies |
| Enrollment | 6 students as of 11:32PM Thursday, May 16, 2013 |
| Subject | Middle East |
| Number | G4326 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
| Open To | Columbia College, Engineering and Applied Science, General Studies, School of Continuing Education, Graduate School of Arts and Science, School of the Arts, International and Public Affairs, Barnard, Engineering and Applied Science: Graduate |
| Campus | Morningside |
| Section key | 20131MDES4326G001 |
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