What is it about?
The article examines Lois McMaster Bujold's military space opera text, 'The Warrior's Apprentice,' in relation to national concerns and anxieties about disability and masculinity during the Reagan Era.
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Why is it important?
The article interweaves the popular image of the cyborg soldier in science fiction with dominant discourses of disability and rehabilitation in the Reagan Era. The article focuses upon a popular science fiction work by Lois McMaster Bujold that is often overlooked by scholars and critics.
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The aim of this article is to engage readers more closely with the representation of disability and gender in science fiction.
Dr Susan Smith
Maplewell Hall School
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This page is a summary of: Reagan, Wounded Heroes, and the Cyborg Soldier in Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Warrior’s Apprentice, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, May 2019, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/jlcds.2018.46.
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