GER 398 - Repression and Rebellion

This English- taught course traces ideas of German identity as reflected in literature, film, and popular media. Beginning with the explosion of print media made possible by Gutenberg’s press, we will read widely through significant periods of cultural change including the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Modernism, Nazi Germany, the split state, and today’s reunited Germany of immigration. Special emphasis will be given to literatures of resistance, which challenged, and often changed, dominant cultural paradigms. Authors writing against artistic, political, sexual, and racial repression will be read alongside other creative production – film, art, and music - for a comprehensive introduction to German cultural history.

Credits 1