prison narratives

[Jules Levin]

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Sasha Spektor<xrenovo at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Dear Sealanders,
>>
>> Through a local think-tank I am planning to teach a course in the TN
>> correctional institution next semester that focuses on prison narratives.
>> God knows, Russian lit has some good ones:  Dostoevsky's ZMD, Solzhenitsyn's
>> One Day, Shalamov's stories.  With a friend's excellent suggestion I'm
>> thinking to include The Death of Ivan Ilyich (as matter imprisoning the
>> soul) and Ward 6.
>>      
I think the first camp book of the modern 20th Century phenomenon, and 
still one of the best, is e. e. cummings, "The Enormous Room", about an 
internment camp in France during W W I, for conscientious objectors, 
German and Austrian nationals, etc.  He was there.
Jules Levin,
Los Angeles





>> But more heads are better than two, and I wanted to ask everyone for
>> suggestions.  It doesn't have to be Russian, nor even East European.  It
>> doesn't have to be fiction.  The only consideration that it shouldn't be too
>> long -- a long story, a novella, a short novel at most.  Like Tolstoy's
>> story it doesn't have to deal only with literal imprisonment, but can
>> address incarceration as a metaphor as well.  Perhaps you know of an
>> especially interesting article on the subject (my theoretical knowledge of
>> it is pretty much circumscribed by Foucault).
>>
>> Please respond off the list and I'll compile a list afterwards to post it
>> here.
>> Thank you in advance,
>>
>> Sasha Spektor.
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