...H. N. Lukes This article examines the cultural history of amputation in the United States to account for the status of white male woundedness and abstract citizenship in our current neoliberal era. Using critical disability theory to reconsider Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower, the article...

... as yet unsuccessful attempts to convince doctors to amputate his reconstructed but still-useless leg. Weary and frustrated, he said Walter Reed is the place where “you have to wait around before you can even begin picking up the pieces.” The “pieces” Jake referred to were the fragmented stuff...

..., with the resoluteness queers of color need to muster to get through the day.6 There is a troubling patness to such readings that amputates too much of the active way José worked to create, save, extend, and enrich brown queer worlds in the imperfect and troubling here...

...” (these are Hammer’s phrases) juxtaposing cheerful images of home and family with horrifying self-portraits of amputated limbs and lynchings. Worrisome as such images are, the film steamrolls over them quickly, assuming that they function...

... Greek prefix ὁμός (one and the same, common, joint) as a recognizable shorthand for homosexual , while the unarticulated sexual (from the Latin sexus , a declension of the verb seco , meaning to cut surgically; to operate on; to cut off or out, amputate, excise; to scratch, tear, wound, hurt...

... — and in this he is both Spanish singer-songwriter and Palestinian poet. His Palestine is a locus of defeat and injustice (“the amputated land of my grandfather but he also refuses to claim that this experience is a unique one. His second CD...

... 57 it must be amputated is one of the novel’s most intriguing symbols of the violent afterlife of slavery. Dana’s injury (seemingly caused by Rufus’s grip on her arm as she transports through time) is read as a sign of the long reach...

... as if this nation would like to self-mutilate, amputate a large part of its history and physiognomy, in an extreme measure to trans- form itself, to become as European as Germany and as North American as Minnesota.”56 But as a country whose history is so deeply interwoven with Africa and the Orient...

... the nameable multiplicity of subentities schematized by the majority. Fol- lowing Hegel the “rabble” is theorized as a structuring amputation and as dis-­organic in not being a functioning organ of a body politic.10 From Social Text 117 • Winter 2013 3...

...): 880. 22. These other participants of Suicide Day were named (literally) and live under the roof of a particularly intense female imagination: that of Eva, Sula’s own renegade grandmother, whose amputated one...

... Luana's story is also an untimely one told by a failed witness. “Scandal and excess inundate the archive: the raw numbers of the mortality account, the strategic evasion and indirection of the captain's log . . . and the rituals of torture, the beatings, hangings, and amputations enshrined as law...

... ground to stylizations and effect. The bulk of the stars were muted into animated stillness; their personas were amputated by tight framings. Also, screenwriting particularly struggled to complete its transition to the changing narrative universe. The shift from a melodramatic address loaded with an Urdu...

... they represent, skin grafting and amputation); the young women accused of prostitution; the thirteen-year-old boys gathered up with their grandfathers; the ailing insurgents people abducted in the middle of night, without bedclothes and deprived 22 of medications; and so forth. While...