This course looks at how the Shoah (Holocaust) is represented in various genres, including memoirs or testimony by survivors, in fiction and drama, and in film and other artistic media. While this course does not aim to provide a study of the Holocaust as a whole, a subject more suited to history, politics and sociology, it will attempt, through the study of various literary and other artistic texts, to provide students with an overview of responses from those who endured and survived the horror as well as from those who have written about the Shoah from an historical distance.

CILO-1: Explain the different literary responses to the Holocaust. CILO-2: Explain the challenges of writing and representing a subject like the Holocaust. CILO-3: Demonstrate an understanding of the challenges of finding a language adequate to express the event of the Holocaust through literary examples. CILO-4: Demonstrate and explain various artistic representations of the Holocaust in Literature, Memoir, Film, Drama and Music. CILO-5: Discuss key ideas on how this subject has impacted on post-War literature, philosophy and sociology. CILO-6: Show or explain how the Holocaust relates to other genocides and the key similarities and differences.