prison narratives

[Robert Orr]

As I've noted, four of the Flashman books have been translated into Russian,
and two of  those ("Flashman", and "Flashman at the Charge") involve the
eponymous hero spending long periods in prison cells in .... er
...interesting locations.  

"Flashman and the Great Game", which should be translated any time now, also
has some interesting prison scenes ......



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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] prison narratives

Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman might be fun to teach.

Olia Prokopenko,
Instructor, Russian Program Adviser

Anderson Hall 551
FGIS, Temple University,
1114 W.Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
tel. (215)-204-1768
oprokop at temple.edu


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.
>
> 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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