Posted: April 1st, 2015

Literature and film

Literature and film

Order Description

In my course, w learned the following films: Nanjing Nanjing(City of life and death), John Rabe, and the novel: Ha Jin: Nanjing Requiem .
Literature and film examined in this course are dominated by several themes, such as “witnessing,” “silence,” “memory,” “forgetfulness,” “representation,” “subject,” etc. Why is “witnessing” important to traumatized war memory? How is “silence” a kind of war trauma? How is war trauma remembered or forgotten? How is war trauma represented in different narratives, including history, literature and art? And what role does the subject play in such representation?
Please respond to one of the above questions by exploring the theme in details of ONE or TWO selected films discussed in this course and in details of Ha Jin’s novel Nanjing Requiem and/or Eileen Zhang’s short story “Lust, Caution.” By examining the way the text and film reflect/reconstruct history, explain your understanding of war trauma.
This is an essay, which means the only task in your writing will be to develop an argument. Your thesis should be clearly stated in the first paragraph (Introduction) and your argument should be summarized in the last paragraph (Conclusion). All your points must be supported by detailed analyses of evidences.
You can gain a better understanding of the question you choose to discuss by “doing research,” that is, by referring to historical facts or accounts and/or previous discussion of the theme in question, in support of your argument.
Your writing is supposed to be clear, efficient and well organized. Before submission, proofread your writing to make sure there is no spelling or grammatical mistake.