Theorizing the Disfigured Body: Mutilation, Amputation, and Disability Culture in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

"Based on personal experiences and interviews in the amputee camps of Sierra Leone, as well as narratives, published accounts and official documents of the civil war in his home country, Cole's work complicates the meaning of "amputation" and "trauma" for both perpetrator and the so-called victim of wartime atrocities." - William Pannapacker, PhD, Professor of English, Hope College

Ernest Cole, PhD is Associate Professor of English and Towsley Research Scholar at Hope College