ENGL-2115 Prose & Cons: American Prison Literature
(TEXTS & CONTEXTS, ENGAGING DIFFERENCE) This course employs a selection of U.S. literature to trace prison literature as an integral feature of literary and rhetorical history; as a vehicle for civil disobedience; as exposition of socially concealed worlds; as a site of gender and sexual consciousness; and as resistant political autobiography and demand for expressive autonomy. Formerly a section of ENG-265.