LIT-341 Seminar: Booked: Prison Writing

Prisons have been the settings for scenes of tragedy, comedy, romance and social protest. While aware of this use of the prison as a literary device, we will read writers who have actually suffered incarceration. We will read European texts (e.g Plato, Bobby Sands), post-colonial prison writers (e.g. Chris Abani, Ruth First), and the work of men and women inside the American prison system. (Students who are 21 will visit a class run inside a local prison facility.) Prerequisite, two courses in literature. Maximum enrollment, 12. Larson.

Maximum Enrollment

Seminar (12)

(Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies, Seminar.)

Credits

1

Prerequisite

two courses in literature.

Notes

(SSIH).