Vulnerable Constitutions – Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American …

Vulnerable ConstitutionsQueerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood\nAuthor(s): Cynthia Barounis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Temple University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781439915066, 978-1439915066\nSynopsis\nAmputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack Londons fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores the way American writers have fashioned alternative-even resistant-epistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity. She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical damage, and bodily contamination have stimulated-rather than created a crisis for-masculine characters in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literature. \n\nBarounis introduces the concept of anti-prophylactic citizenship-a mode of political belonging characterized by vu.