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READINGS / SCREENINGS |
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Overview: What is ground zero?
Halbwachs, Maurice. "Individual and Collective Memory."
Halbwachs, Maurice. "Space and the Collective Memory."
Huyssen, Andreas. "Twin Memories: After-Images of 9/11."
Kurgan, Laura. "Around Ground Zero."
Hobsbawm, Eric. "The Age of Total War."
Martin, Reinhold. "One or More." |
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Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five.
Celan, Paul. "Sand from the Urns," "Count the Almonds," "Huhediblu," "Eastersmoke," "Well-Graves in the Wind," "In the Air," "Death Fugue," and "Nearness of Graves."
Colin, Amy. "Innovation and Repetition." |
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Film (in-class screening): Rossellini, Roberto. Germany in Year Zero.
Brockmann, Stephen. "German Literature, Year Zero: Writers and Politics, 1945-53." |
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Yoneyama, Lisa. "Introduction," "Phantasmatic Innocence," "Tropes of the Nation, Peace, and Humanity," and "On the Politics of Historical Memory."
Photography (in-class viewing): Ienaga, Saburo, ed. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Atomic Bombings as Seen through Photography.
Azoulay, Ariella. "The [Blind] Gesture: Hiroshima." |
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Sankichi, Toge. "Give Me Back My Father," "August 6, 1950," "At a First Aid Post," "To Miss…," "The Night," and "The Vision."
Treat, John Whittier. "Poetry against Itself." |
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Performance (in-class screening): Hijikata, Tatsumi, Taka Iimura, and Eiko Hosoe. Navel and Atomic Bomb.
Munroe, Alexandra. "Revolt of the Flesh: Ankoku Butoh and Obsessional Art."
Viala, Jean. "The Return of Hijikata." Foreword and Introduction.
Shinoe, Shoda. Selected Tanka.
Sadako, Kurihara. "Reconstruction," "I Bear Witness for Hiroshima," "I Saw Hiroshima," and "Hiroshima, Auschwitz: We Must Not Forget."
Yoneyama, Lisa. "Taming the Memoryscape."
Zolberg, Vera. "Museums as Contested Sites of Remembrance: The Enola Gay Affair." |
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Film (in-class screening): Resnais, Alain. Hiroshima, Mon Amour.
Young, James. "Germany's Holocaust Memorial Problem--and Mine."
Caruth, Cathy. "Literature and the Enactment of Memory: Duras, Resnais, Hiroshima, Monamour." |
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Levi, Primo. "Argon," "Carbon," and "Hydrogen."
Agamben, Giorgio. Preface to Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive, and "The Witness." |
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Agamben, Giorgio. "On Security and Terror."
Chomsky, Noam. 9.11
Performance (in-class screening): Bounty Killer. The Art of War.
Recording (in-class play): Einstürzende Neubauten. Strategies against Architecture.
Sarig, Roni. "The Postindustrial Wasteland" and "Einstürzende Neubauten." |
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Baudrillard, Jean. The Spirit of Terrorism. |
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11 |
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Review |
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