Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "Lo

1. Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of "Loss"
Part I: The Politics of Amputation2. "Lame Doings." Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker's Holiday and A Larum for London3. Complicating the Semiotics of Loss. Gender, Power and Amputation Narratives4. 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 Relations8. The Penalty in Novel and Film: Grieving with the Vengeful Amputee9. "The Blunt Remnant of Something Whole": Living Stumps and Prosthetic Relations in Thomas Bernhard's Die Billigesser and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America10. "But the Damage ... Lasted": Phantom Pain and Mourning in Moritz's Anton Reiser
Part IV: Philosophy, Language, Disability11. Zhuangzi, Amputees, and Virtue (de)12. Speech-Amputation-Writing: Philomela's Notalogy13. (In)complete Amputation: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Maurice Blanchot