Laura Trafí, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Goals:

• To define the concept of post-history through its theoretical lineages with poststructuralism and psychoanalysis.
• To study and imagine alternative representations of modernity based in the visual narrations of “the traumatic event”.
• To construct intertextualities and intergraphicalities between art, literature, life and history that allow the inscription of memory and autobiography in history through the exploration of dialogic and discursive (visual) narrative styles.

Methodology:

Master classes: introduction to the topic and the relevant contributions.

Seminar classes:

• Readings and discussions of the bibliography and filmography in little and general groups.
• Analysis of cases (films, works of art, photography, comics).
• Student presentations

Assessment:

Attendance and participation in the class sessions.

The writing of a visual essay.

Basic Bibliography:

Agamben, G. (2002). Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive . Massachusetts: Zone Books/MIT Press.

Didi-Huberman, G. (2003). Images malgré tout . Paris. Editions de Minuit.

Derrida, J. ; Fathy, S. (2000). Tourner les mots. Au bord d'un film . Paris: Éditions Galilée.

Derrida, J. (1996) Archive Fever. A Freudian Impression . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Felman, S. Laub, D. (1992). Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History . London and New York: Routledge.

LaCapra, D. (2004). History in Transit. Experience, Identity, Cri tical Theory . Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.

White, H. (1987). The Content of Form. Narrative, Discourse and Historical Representation . Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

White, H. (1999). Figural Realism. Studies in the Mimesis Effect . Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.