Amputation in Literature and Film

Chapter 1 Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of “Loss”

Chapter 2 “Lame Doings”: Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker’s Holiday and A Larum for London

Chapter 3 Complicating the Semiotics of Loss: Gender, Power, and Amputation Narratives

Chapter 4 Stalin’s Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet Literature

Chapter 5 “She Had Wept So Long and So Much on the Stumps”: Amputation and Embodiment in “The Girl Without Hands”

Chapter 6 Defective Femininity and (Sur)Realist Empowerment: Benito Pérez Galdós’s and Luis Buñuel’s Tristana

Chapter 9 “The Blunt Remnant of Something Whole”: Living Stumps and Prosthetic Relations in Thomas Bernhard’s Die Billigesser and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America

Chapter 12 Speech—Amputation—Writing: Philomela’s Notalogy