Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity After World War II

by Gill Plain

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316513203
• ISBN13: 9781316513200
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"