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The Literature of Torture
First Year Seminar 177
Fall 1999     Gettysburg College
*The following list is meant to be suggestive rather than comprehensive;  feel free to approach me with your own ideas for research topics.*

The “Other” as Monster
The Body as Text
Sado-Masochism
Sadism
Political Torture
The Inquisition
Torture and Confession
Torture and the Nature of Power
Torture in the “Civilized” World
Torture and the American Sense of Justice
Torture in American Homes
Torture on Campus
The History of Anti-Semitism in Europe
Anti-Semitism in Modern Europe
Pogroms, Ethnic Cleansing, and Torture and National Identity
Torture and the Holocaust
The Geneva Convention and War Crimes
The Nuremberg Trials
Domestic Abuse
Spousal Rape
Hazing as Torture
Hazing and Homoeroticism
Violence and Sex
Rape and Power
Date Rape
Gang Rape, Homoeroticism, and the Fiction of Male Power
American Ideal Beauty, Self-Loathing, and the Commercialization of Bodily Self-Destruction
Infanticide
Child Abuse
 

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