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The Literature of Torture
First Year Seminar 177
Fall 1999     Gettysburg College
Reading List

Textbooks:

1) Dorfman, Ariel
Death and the Maiden
Viking Penguin
Paper (1994)
0140246843

2) Kafka, Franz
The Transformation ("Metamorphosis") and Other Stories
Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Paper (1992)
0140184783

3) Lomax, Eric
The Railway Man
Ballantine Books
Paper (1996)
0345406680

4) Peters, Edward
Torture
University of Pennsylvania Press
Expanded ed. Paper (1996)
0812215990

5) Sanday, Peggy Reeves
Fraternity Gang Rape:  Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
NYU Press
Paper (1990)
0814779611

6) Styron, William
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Vintage Books
Paper (1993)
0679736638

7) Wiesel, Elie
Night
Bantam Books
Paper (1992)
0553540831

Reserve Readings:

1) From Torture in the Eighties, by Amnesty International:  A selection of photographs with commentary (94-102) —electronic reserve

2) From All Souls Rising, by Madison Smartt Bell:  Chapter 1 (11-26) and a selection from the end of Chapter 17 (234-237) —electronic reserve

3) From Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee:  Two selections (102-110 & 115-121) —electronic reserve

4) From A Glimpse of Hell, edited by Duncan Forrest for Amnesty International:  From Chapter 6, “The Torturers” (87-91), by Felicity de Zulueta, and from Chapter 7, “The Methods of Torture and Its Effects” (104-114), by Duncan Forrest—electronic reserve

5) From Discipline and Punish, by Michel Foucault:  One selection from “The Body of the Condemned” (3-6) —electronic reserve

6) From Divine Violence: Spectacle, Psychosexuality & Radical Christianity in the Argentine "Dirty War”, by Frank Graziano:  One selection (107-146) —electronic reserve

7) Extremities, by William Mastrosimone. In entirety—book on  reserve.

8) The Burning Bed, by Faith McNulty. In entirety—book on reserve.

9) From Beloved, by Toni Morrison:  Two selections (130-139 & 276-279) —electronic reserve

10) From The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison:  One selection (125-129) —electronic reserve

11) From 1984, by George Orwell:  One selection (198-215) —electronic reserve

12) From The Body in Pain, by Elaine Scarry:  One Selection from  “The Structure of Torture:  The Conversion of Real Pain into the Fiction of Power” (27-59) —electronic reserve

13) From The Gulag Archipelago, by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn:  One selection (103-120) —electronic reserve

 

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