Poetic Prosthetics

Trauma and Language in Contemporary Veteran Writing

Ron Ben-Tovim (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9850-0 (ISBN)

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Examines contemporary online soldier poetry and graphic novel writing in the first book-length study of its kind

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 is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University. He was a Kreitman Postdoctoral Fellow and won the Dan David Prize for Postdoctoral Research in 2017. He works on the intersection of war writing, trauma studies and disability studies and is the author of Poetic Prosthetics: Trauma and Language in Contemporary Veteran Writing (2022).

Introduction: Limping Back to Life after War

Index, Ghost, Dream
Reality, Disillusionment, Play
War Life, Life as War
Prosthetic Irony: The Ghost in the Machine
The Prosthesis and Burial, Or Caring for the Dead
Body and Metaphor

Conclusion: Leaving the Island

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Advances in Critical Military Studies
Zusatzinfo	1 black and white illustration
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4744-9850-7 / 1474498507
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-9850-0 / 9781474498500
Zustand	Neuware