What does Foucault have to do with literature?

Question

I am reading Foucault (and despise him) for a literature class. The problem is Foucault is all we are reading and we are not using his work in conjunction with any literature.

What does he have to do with literature at all?

So far I have read "Ethics," "Power," and "The Birth of the Clinic" and believe these works are more of what a physician should read and, in reality, have nothing to do with literature.

HELP.

PS--I know book titles go in italics or underline, but this forum makes that impossible.

Answer 1

Not much. He was a Christian and a philosopher.

Answer 2

There is or was a question here last week about the worst book you ever had to read for an English class. I thought Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology" was the worst. But, if you enter with Foucault, I will definitely vote for your answer; your teacher is more of a sadist than mine was.