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Prerequisites/Notes:
GER 312
Catalog Description :
Study of German-Jewish authors, intellectual figures, and topics from the Enlightenment to the present. This course will examine the role of dual identities, issues of assimilation/acculturation, Jewish identification and the notion of Jewish self-hatred. Representative writers include Mendelssohn, Heine, Kafka, Freud, Benjamin, Celan, Becker, Hilsenrath, and Honigmann. May be repeated when topic is different.
Topic for Spring 2020: Modern German-Jewish Identities
This course examines German Jews’ simultaneous belonging to and alienation from German identity. By way of modern literary, cultural, and aesthetic works, it interrogates the German national imaginary, assimilation, crises of modernity, German-Jewish self-positioning, and German-Jews’ relationship to Germany today. Selected topics include: queering identity, women writing in exile, and post-memory.
Attributes: Non-English Language Instructn, GER Humanities Div, 400-599 Advanced Course
Term |
Spring Term 2020 |
Instructors |
Vanessa D. Plumly |
Course |
GER 431 |
Grade Mode |
Standard |
Title |
TOP: JEWISH-GERMAN LITERATURE |
Final Exam |
Monday, Jun 08, 2020 08:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
CRN |
3936 |
Status |
Active |
Class Time |
09:50 AM-11:00 AM MWF MEMO 114 |
Start-End Date |
Apr 06, 2020-Jun 10, 2020 |
Campus |
Appleton Main Campus |
Units |
6 |
Course materials |
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Maximum |
Number registered |
Enrollment: |
Unlimited |
4 |
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