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.
Seminar (12)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
two courses in literature.
Notes
(SSIH).