02 TTH3:55-5:15p C/D 35464 BARNETT RAB-208
03 TTH8 CAC 35796 SCHANDL SC-101
02-Images and Narratives of War
This course will focus on the Vietnam War and the present war in Iraq. We will experience the Vietnam War primarily through novels and memoirs: some time will be spent on the ongoing impact of the war after it was over, not only for veterans but for later generations. Alex Garland’s 1997 novel The Beach, for example, was inspired by the great Vietnam War movies of the 1970s. The Iraq War has not yet produced “literature.” Instead, we will read some soldiers’ and journalists’ commentaries and chapters from historical texts such as Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s Imperial Life in the Emerald City and Ali Allawi’s The Occupation of Iraq. We will also see some documentary films, such as Iraq in Fragments.
The Vietnam War was a enormous upheaval in the America of the 1960s and early 70s. The Iraq War can be instructively compared to this earlier struggle, but—as we will see--the overall cultural climate of the early years of the new millennium is radically different from that of the earlier period.
03: THIS COURSE SAME AS 565:360:02
03-Shakespeare on the Hungarian Stage
Course Page:
http://seell.rutgers.edu/Fall_2007/Shakespeare/course%20schedule.pdf
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