Prosthetic agency: literature, culture and masculinity after World War II

Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II examines the social and psychic upheaval of demobilisation. It maps the rapid transition from wartime regimentation to individual responsibility, from intense homosociality to heteronormative expectations, from normativity to...

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Main Author: Plain, Gill (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2023
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Summary:Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II examines the social and psychic upheaval of demobilisation. It maps the rapid transition from wartime regimentation to individual responsibility, from intense homosociality to heteronormative expectations, from normativity to disability and from uniformed masculinity to domestic citizenship. This book considers some of the many ways in which popular culture of the time sought to mediate these difficult transitions, exploring films, popular fiction, memoir and biography. In particular, the book explores how technology was imagined as a new space of masculine becoming and how disability was written, represented and assimilated. Through a focus on popular narrative, this book explores the modes of masculinity promoted as ideally suited to national reconstruction and tries to make sense of a culture of rehabilitation that could not name or know itself as such
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jun 2023)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 278 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009072106
DOI:10.1017/9781009072106

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