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The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television book cover

1st Edition

The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television

Edited By Cornelia Klecker, Gudrun M. Grabher Copyright 2022
230 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The face, being prominent and visible, is the foremost marker of a person’s identity as well as their major tool of communication. Facial disfigurements, congenital or acquired, not only erase these significant capacities, but since ancient times, they have been conjured up as outrageous and terrifying, often connoting evil or criminality in their associations – a dark secret being suggested... Read more

Poem / A Creative Foreword: Encounter

Kenneth Sherman

The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television: Introduction

Cornelia Klecker and Gudrun M. Grabher

Facial Disfigurement: A Plastic Surgeon’s Perspective

Gerhard Pierer

Part I: Facial Disfigurement in American Literature

1. Ugliness as Deformity in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and Flavor of the Month

Sharrona Pearl

2. Drawing a Broader Picture of Facial Disfigurement: Moving Beyond "Narrative Prosthesis" in James Hankins’ Drawn

Hayley Mitchell Haugen

3. Writing against the Stigma: Facial Disfigurement in R. J. Palacio’s Wonder

Sandra Tausel

4. Song of My Self or "I Become the Wounded Person": Kenneth Sherman’s Poetic Tribute to the Elephant Man

Gudrun M. Grabher

Part II: Facial Disfigurement in American Film and Television

5. Loving the Monster: The Elephant Man as Modern Fable

Suzannah Biernoff

6. Facial Disfigurement on Screen: James Bond and the Politics of Portraying the Post-9/11 Terrorist

Fran Pheasant-Kelly

7. Masculinity and Facial Disfigurement in Contemporary US Television Characters

Julia Möseneder

8. Fictional 'Dissections' of a Medical Curiosity: Facial Disfigurement in Grey’s Anatomy

Cornelia Klecker

Biography

Cornelia Klecker is Assistant Professor and Deputy Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Gudrun M. Grabher was, until recently, Full Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is the author of Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement.

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