Michelle Chiang – författare

Examining contemporary depictions of less-than-adequate mothers, Michelle Chiang reveals how care relations are fundamentally othering experiences, even between a mother and a child. Employing maternal theory and phenomenological philosophy as lenses to analyse the selected novels, Chiang offers an account of the imaginative labour that goes into caring for an other who is not entirely knowable. She argues that carers must imaginatively labour to confront the limits of their knowledge in care relations. When carers fail to exercise a dynamic imagination to confront the limits of their knowledge, they risk losing sight of the cared-for as an individual inhabiting time orientations and contextual spaces that might differ from theirs. In doing so, care may collapse into a search for certainty and control, which almost always entails the violence of coercion.

Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss. With reference to selected works by Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze, this book charts the processes of how an audience member’s habitual way of understanding could be frustrated by Beckett’s film, radio, stage and television plays. Michelle Chiang explores the ways in which Beckett exploited these mediums to reconstitute an audience response derived from intuition.

Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss. With reference to selected works by Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze, this book charts the processes of how an audience member’s habitual way of understanding could be frustrated by Beckett’s film, radio, stage and television plays. Michelle Chiang explores the ways in which Beckett exploited these mediums to reconstitute an audience response derived from intuition.