ANTHRO 2689 – Image making in the Jewish imagination: drawing trauma, home and the diasporic condition

ANTHRO 2689 – Image making in the Jewish imagination: drawing trauma, home and the diasporic condition

Semester: Spring
Offered: 2023
Instructor: Ruth Mandel
Meeting Time: W 6:00pm-8:45pm

What can we learn from alternative, multimodal forms of knowledge production? This course applies anthropological approaches to Jewish graphic narratives. We will explore the ways Jewish authors grapple with complex experiences of trauma, migration, displacement, and identity, through the use of graphic media.  Some of the works we will read include Spiegelman, Chabon, Kurzweil, Krimstein, and others.

For more details please visit the Harvard Course Catalog.