CULTR ST 706 / Fictionality, Historiography, and the Afterlife of the Event

3 unit(s)

P. Rethmann

In this course we will examine the afterlives of vital cultural and political moments and events in 20th century political culture. With a few exceptions, we will focus on the period of the mid- 1950s to the mid-1990s in an attempt to access the fictional and historical afterlife of the important moments and events, including social and political utopianism, internationalism, “third-worldism,” Vietnam, and 1968 afterlives (Germany, Italy, France, United States).