Listed in: Architectural Studies, as ARCH-363 | European Studies, as EUST-363 | Film and Media Studies, as FAMS-370 | German, as GERM-363
Formerly listed as: FAMS-53 | GERM-63
Heidi Gilpin (Section 01)
(Offered as ARCH 363, GERM 363, EUST 363, and FAMS 370.) How is memory constructed and represented? How is it possible to bear witness, and what exactly is involved? Who is authorized to testify, to whom, when? Whose story is it? Is it possible to tell "the story" of a traumatic event? What are the disorders of testimony, and how and where do they emerge? This course will observe the workings of trauma (the enactment and working-through of collective and individual symptoms of trauma), memory, and witnessing in various modes of everyday life. We will examine notions of catastrophe, disaster, accident, and violence, and explore the possibilities and impossibilities of bearing witness in many forms of cultural production: in fiction, poetry, architecture, critical theory, oral and written testimonies, visual art, monuments, memorials, philosophy, science, cartoons, film, video, theater, television reportage, newspaper documentation, performance, online, and in our public and domestic spaces. We will study various representations of trauma, paying particular attention to events in Germany and Europe from the twentieth century, as well as to 9/11 and other recent international events. Material to be examined will be drawn from the work of Pina Bausch, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Cathy Caruth, Paul Celan, Marguerite Duras, Peter Eisenman, Shoshana Felman, Florian Freund, Jochen Gerz, Geoffrey Hartman, Rebecca Horn, Marion Kant, Anselm Kiefer, Ruth Klüger, Dominick LaCapra, Claude Lanzmann, Dori Laub, Daniel Libeskind, W.G. Sebald, Art Spiegelman, Paul Virilio, Peter Weiss, Wim Wenders, Elie Wiesel, Christa Wolf, and others. Conducted in English with German majors required to do a substantial portion of the reading in German.
Fall semester. Professor Gilpin.
Section 01
W 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM CONV 209
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Appointment | Trans Hulse & Boehm; Henry Holt & Co, 2001 | Müller, Herta | Required: non-German majors only, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemp Art and Arch | Yale UP, 2000 | Young, James | Required: non-German majors only, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Austerlitz | Trans Bell; Random House 2001 | Sebald, W G | Required: non-German majors only, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Austerlitz | Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2nd ed, 2003 | Sebald, W G | Required: German majors only, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Der Fremde Blick oder Das Leben ist ein Furz in der Laterne | Wallstein Verlag, 1999, 2nd ed, 2002 | Müller, Herta | Required: German majors only, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Der König verneight sich und tötet | Carl Hanser Verlag, 2003 | Müller, Herta | Required: German majors only, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Die Ausgewanderten | Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 9th ed, 2002 | Sebald, W G | Required: German majors only, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| The Emigrants | Trans Hulse; New Directions, 1997 | Sebald, W G | Required: non-German majors only, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet | Rowohlt, 1997 | Müller, Herta | Required: German majors only, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| In the Shadow of No Towers | Pantheon/Random House, 2004 | Spiegelman, Art | Required: German majors and non-German majors, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| MAUS: A Survivor's Tale I: My Father Bleeds History | Pantheon, 1973 | Spiegelman, Art | Required: German majors and non-German majors, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| MAUS: A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began | Pantheon, 1986 | Spiegelman, Art | Required: German majors and non-German majors, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| The Night Trilogy | Hill & Wang, 1972; 1985 | Wiesel, Elie | Required: German majors and non-German majors, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis & History | Routledge, 1991 | Felman, Shoshana | Required: German majors and non-German majors, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Trauma: Explorations in Memory | Johns Hopkins UP, 1995 | Ed Caruth, Cathy | Required: German majors and non-German majors, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Trauma and Recovery | Basic Books, 1992 | Herman, Judith Lewis | Required: German majors and non-German majors, also on reserve | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.