This seminar uses dramatic literature and film
to examine the Nazi policies of genocide 
that were initiated and enacted before and 
during the Second World War.  Various
representational strategies are analyzed
and contrasted in an effort to gauge the
relative effectiveness of artists to come to
terms with these ineffable events.  Issues to
be examined include the relationship between
a dramatic text and its historical model, the
problem of transfiguration, the applicability 
of a structural model for organizing texts, 
documentary versus dramatic enactment,
varying national perspectives,the emergence
of feminist and gay perspectives, and the
problems of exploitation and revisionism.