The Illegible Man - 9780253071798

The Illegible ManDisability and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America\nAuthor(s): Will Kanyusik\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253071798, 978-0253071798\nSynopsis\nHow does the sudden onset of disability impact the sense of self in a person whose identity was, at least in part, predicated on the possession of what is culturally understood to be an \""able\"" body? How does this experience make visible the structures enabling society's shared notions of heteronormative masculinity?\n In the United States, the Second World War functioned as a key moment in the emergence of modern understandings of disability, demonstrating that an increased concern with disability in the postwar period would ultimately lead to greater incoherence in the definitions and cultural meanings of disability in America. The Illegible Man examines depictions of disability in American film and literature in twentieth-centur.