Poetic Prosthetics
Trauma and Language in Contemporary Veteran Writing
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:13th Sep '22
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Poetic Prosthetics provides an analytical tool for reading war and trauma literature, focussing on contemporary British and American soldier writing, published online in various forums by the soldiers themselves since the onset of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in some cases, recent writings of veterans of the Falkland War.
Ron Ben-Tovim’s book is a penetrating inquiry into the poems of soldiers as seen through the mutually reinforcing lenses of trauma and disability studies. Particularly arresting is his idea of the poem as a prosthetic work of art that may enable the psychically wounded to make their arduous way back into social and political life. * Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University *
ISBN: 9781474498494
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264 pages