Prison Experiences in Modern Literature

Beginning with a classic 19th-century narrative of slavery we will read accounts of the concentration camp and the Soviet Gulag, plays by a convicted felon, poems and a memoir by political prisoners, a novel about the friendship between a political prisoner and a sex offender sharing a cell in an Argentine prison, and a sobering collaborative memoir by an acclaimed African-American writer and his brother serving a life sentence for robbery and murder.

Credits

3 credits

Course Code

CMLIT 202