prison narratives

[Sasha Spektor]

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.

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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