Writing on the Edge: Literature and Incarceration

3 Hours

Explore the critical potential of literature to interrogate mass incarceration and its relationship to systemic inequalities, including access to education, as well as the limits and possibilities of prison writing as a social and restorative endeavor to reimagine society. Spanish 357C and 377C (Topic: Writ on Edge: Lit & Incrcetion) may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.