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At the University of the West of England in Bristol I taught for three years, two of these with my colleague Victoria Stewart, a year-long Level 3 optional module entitled “Representing the Holocaust” within the School of English and Drama. What follows is a reflection on some of the issues that arose during the planning, teaching, and evaluation of this course: I do not claim to have found answers to all of these complex questions, but hope to offer some ways of addressing them with students.
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King, N. (2008). Teaching Holocaust Literature: Issues of Representation. In: Eaglestone, R., Langford, B. (eds) Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film. Teaching the New English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230591806_5
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