EWL 308 Trauma in Literature and Film
In this course we study trauma in literature and film. Through the novels and short stories of Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Muriel Spark, and Virginia Woolf and through the films of Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Craven, Alfred Hitchcock, Werner Herzog, George Sluizer, and John Waters, we consider the relationship between the expression and reception of trauma; between the nature of traumas resulting from family violence and state violence; and between the occurrence of a trauma, the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the narration of that trauma.