Beckett Beyond the Normal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Explores Beckett’s artistic vision at the intersection of queer, disability and posthumanist studiesThe first volume to address norms and normalcy as an enduring target of Beckettian skepticismShifts the emphasis from generic talk of ‘Other Becketts’ to specific accounts of the queer, the disabling, the abnormalising aspects of the mature worksAbsorbs and transcends the philosophy/history binary that has shaped the last twenty yearsBrings Beckett Studies into the twenty-first century as the first intersectional volume to address queerness, disability and biopolitics togetherThis book examines why Beckett’s writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Why did Beckett write so often about mental illness, disability, perversion? Why did he take such an interest in ‘abnormals’ and ‘degenerates’? How did he reconceive ‘the human’ in the wake of Hitler and Stalin? Drawing on Beckett’s voluminous archive, as well as his primary texts, the authors use psychoanalysis, queer theory, disability theory and biopolitics to push Beckett studies beyond the normal.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-20
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:396 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474460460

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Seán Kennedy is Coordinator of Irish Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax.

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These needle-sharp essays pierce the skin. They tattoo anew Beckett’s utter disdain for redemptive art and liberal humanism. Torture, starvation, disability are not metaphors. More, the essays shatter pieties in contemporary criticism: from autism studies to queer studies; from historical to psychoanalytic approaches. Once again, Seán Kennedy disorders the discipline.

Innehållsförteckning

Abbreviations‘Here all is strange’: Beckett beyond the normal, Seán Kennedy1 Murphy and the Tao of Autism, Joseph Valente2 Narrating Disruption: Realist Fiction and the Politics of Form in Watt, William Davies3 ‘no human shape’: Unformed Life in The Unnamable, Byron Heffer4 Beckett, Evangelicalism and the Biopolitics of Famine, Seán Kennedy5 ‘He wants to know if it hurts!’: Suffering beyond Redemption in Waiting for Godot, Hannah Simpson6 ‘as if the sex matters’: Beckett, Barthes and Endgame in Love, James Brophy7 Beckett’s Queer Time of Défaillance: Ritual and Resistance in Happy Days, Nic Barilar8 Beckett’s Safe Words: Normalising Torture in How It Is, Dominic WalkerBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex