Abstract
Some critics of Coming Home (1978) hierarchize mental and physical disabilities, and judge disabilities in male bodies in terms both of gender and sexuality. This essay concludes that Vietnam War texts like Coming Home can be read as indicting the cultural mores that locate disability as the result of an inherent flaw, as they underscore the corruption of the “normal,” especially in terms of the Vietnam War. In doing so, these texts problematize the traditional ways that gender, and especially male masculinity, can be enacted in American society, challenging popular notions that regard sex and gender, or the body and masculinity, as discrete entities.
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