Titlebook: Amputation in Literature and Film; Artificial Limbs, P Erik Grayson,Maren Scheurer Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(

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Stalin’s Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet Literatureighting the paradoxical role of the amputee veteran in Soviet commemoration politics between hero cult and stigmatization. Analyzing Boris Polevoi’s canonic Socialist realist . (1946) as a foil to Oleg Rossiyanov’s . (2007) and Eduard Kochergin’s . (2003), which criticize the Stalinist regime, the c

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“She Had Wept So Long and So Much on the Stumps”: Amputation and Embodiment in “The Girl Without Han In a close reading of the Brothers Grimm version of the tale, the chapter argues that the amputation is deeply symbolic in nature. The removal of the girl’s hands—and by extension her ability to act independently in the world—symbolizes the loss of power and agency that is seen to accompany entry i

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“Even at This Late Juncture”: Amputation, Old Age, and Paul Rayment’s Prosthetic Family in J.M. Coets the ways in which Paul Rayment’s response to the amputation of his leg following a cycling accident highlights the complex entanglements of age, masculinity, and the need for human connection. The chapter argues that Paul’s surgery effectively inaugurates his senescence, thereby casting him sudden

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in Novel and Film: Grieving with the Vengeful Amputeechapter argues that, in contrast to the novel’s construction of the amputee as monstrous, the film’s structure situates the amputated protagonist Blizzard as a sympathetic main character and his amputation as a tragedy worth avenging. It discusses the characterizations in both novel and film while e

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“The Blunt Remnant of Something Whole”: Living Stumps and Prosthetic Relations in Thomas Bernhard’s that both texts can be read as provocations to standardized relational patterns between disabled and normate characters. Bernhard’s and Roth’s non-disabled narrators expose the negative emotions disability arouses in others, and, by confronting the audience with their ambivalent reactions to disabil

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“But the Damage … Lasted”: Phantom Pain and Mourning in Moritz’s (1785–90) to explore the links between self-formation, autofictional writing, relationality, phantom pain, and mourning. The chapter outlines the relationality of the self with reference to canonical pretexts of autofiction evoked in Moritz’s .; it expounds the self-formative gesture of presenting

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Speech—Amputation—Writing: Philomela’s ,logygue for a theory of communication. In the myth, the amputation of Philomela’s tongue after the rape by Tereus is the origin of writing, which thus finds its foundation in an act of (sexual) violence and an experience of absence. Linking the myth to a Derridean critique of phonocentrism and contrasti