Poetic Prosthetics

Examines contemporary online soldier poetry and graphic novel writing in the first book-length study of its kind Offers a new perspective on the effect of violence on individual personalities as well as on the ability of veterans to reintegrate into society by addressing the damage done to language as an injury"Counters one major narrative in the understanding of soldiers' wartime experiences in terms of political/ideological "disillusionment," by focusing on damage done to the personal ability