LINK: LITERATURE OF TRAUMA

These two integrated courses, The Literature of Trauma and The Psychology of Trauma, are uniquely situated to depict and examine trauma, survival, and healing. The psychology course provides the necessary background and most recent research on what happens to the body and brain as a result of trauma, and to the treatments for empowering and caring of survivors. The Literature of Trauma focuses on those events so traumatic they often prevent the protagonists or narrators from expressing their response to the trauma directly. In other words, this course will look at literary techniques (substitution/metonymy, magical realism/fantasy, flashback, sublimation) used as coping mechanisms. In addition to studying films and participating in live events, we will read the works of Harriet Jacobs, Art Spiegelman, Philip Metres, Ursula LeGuin, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag, and others.Corequisite: PS 289Prerequisite: EN 125Offered: Fall