This course examines how the opposition between historical and imaginative discourse has determined not only the discussions in Holocaust studies, but also the kind of art, literature, and historiography which has been produced about the Holocaust. Artists, writers, and theorists who refute the opposition by deconstructing it will be focused on, e.g. Christian Boltanski, Anselm Kiefer, Armando, Art Spiegelman, Charlotte Salomon, Charlotte Delbo, Helen Demidenko, and Paul Celan. Cost 2 (vanAlphen, Ernst)