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One Book Holyoke
Humanities 200.51
1 credit course at Holyoke Community College
6:15pm - 8:15pm, March 21 - April 18, 2007
Location: HCC Studio/Classroom, 2nd Floor, Open Square in
downtown Holyoke
Instructor: Deborah Savage
Description
It must never happen again. It must never be
forgotten. What else can we think after reading accounts
of the Holocaust—the journals, memoirs, stories and
poems engendered by this darkest of nights? Yet we do forget—all
of us, every day--and it does happen again. And again. It
continues to happen, and is happening as you read this:
the infinite capacity of human beings to be inhuman. So
what, after all, does it matter—the words of these
witnesses? Do their stories ever really make any difference?
And for those of us who briefly allow their imperfect words
to shatter the convictions we hold most dear—that
love redeems, that truth prevails, that justice triumphs--how
do we then go on with our lives? Why read Night by
Elie Wiesel? Why confront questions to which we know there
are no answers? Why—because we are human, and we must.
About the professor
Deborah Savage is an author, a visual artist, and teacher.
She has seven novels published by Houghton Mifflin, one
of which was made into an award-winning international film.
For the past four years she has been teaching as an adjunct
in English at Holyoke Community College, and creating and
coordinating community-based mural projects with city youth
through organizations such as the Children’s Museum,
the Boys and Girls Club, and Nuestras Raices. She has more
than twenty years’ experience teaching English at
the high-school and college level, as well as fascilitating
workshops in creative writing and art at schools and colleges.
She has been reading literature of the Holocaust since she
high school.
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