Poetic Prosthetics Trauma and Language in Contemporary Veteran Writing - Advances in Critical Military Studies

Ron Ben-Tovim

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Publisher's Synopsis

Poetic Prosthetics provides an analytical tool for reading war and trauma literature, focussing on contemporary British and American soldier writing, published online in various forums by the soldiers themselves since the onset of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in some cases, recent writings of veterans of the Falkland War.

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ISBN:	9781474498494
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:	30 Sep 2022
DEWEY:	809.93358
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	240
Weight:	546g
Height:	162mm
Width:	241mm
Spine width:	20mm