Amputation in Literature and Film

1. Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of “Loss”.- Part I: The Politics of Amputation.- 2. “Lame Doings.” Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker’s Holiday and A Larum for London.- 3. Complicating the Semiotics of Loss. Gender, Power and Amputation Narratives.- 4. Stalin’s Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet Literature.- Part II. Amputations’s Intersections.- 5. “She Had Wept So Long and So Much on the Stumps”: Amputation and Embodiment in “The Girl Without Hands”.- 6. Defective Femininity and (Sur)Realist Empowerment: Benito Pérez Galdós’s and Luis Buñuel’s Tristana.- 7. “Even at This Late Juncture”: Amputation, Old Age, and Paul Rayment’s Prosthetic Family in J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.- Part III: Grief and Prosthetic Relations.- 8. The Penalty in Novel and Film: Grieving with the Vengeful Amputee.- 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.- 10. “But the Damage … Lasted”: Phantom Pain and Mourning in Moritz’s Anton Reiser.- Part IV: Philosophy, Language, Disability.- 11. Zhuangzi, Amputees, and Virtue (de).- 12. Speech—Amputation—Writing: Philomela’s Notalogy.- 13. (In)complete Amputation: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Maurice Blanchot.