Poetic Prosthetics : : Trauma and Language in Contemporary Veteran Writing / / Ron Ben-Tovim.
Examines contemporary online soldier poetry and graphic novel writing in the first book-length study of its kindOffers a new perspective on the effect of violence on individual personalities as well as on the ability of veterans to reintegrate into society by addressing the damage done to language a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in Critical Military Studies : ACMS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF FIGURES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Introduction: Limping Back to Life after War
- CHAPTER 1 Index, Ghost, Dream
- CHAPTER 2 Reality, Disillusionment, Play
- CHAPTER 3 War Life, Life as War
- CHAPTER 4 Prosthetic Irony – The Ghost in the Machine
- CHAPTER 5 The Prosthesis and Burial, Or Caring for the Dead
- CHAPTER 6 Body and Metaphor
- Conclusion: Leaving the Island
- Index