Beckett Beyond the Normal / / Seán Kennedy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Kennedy, Seán,
• MitwirkendeR: Barilar, Nic,; Brophy, James,; Davies, William,; Heffer, Byron,; Kennedy, Seán,; Simpson, Hannah,; Valente, Joseph,; Walker, Dominic,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; ‘Here all is strange’: Beckett beyond the normal --; 1. Murphy and the Tao of Autism --; 2. Narrating Disruption: Realist Fiction and the Politics of Form in Watt --; 3. ‘no human shape’: Unformed Life in The Unnamable --; 4. Beckett, Evangelicalism and the Biopolitics of Famine --; 5. ‘He wants to know if it hurts!’: Suffering beyond Redemption in Waiting for Godot --; 6 ‘as if the sex matters’: Beckett, Barthes and Endgame in Love --; 7. Beckett’s Queer Time of Défaillance: Ritual and Resistance in Happy Days --; 8. Beckett’s Safe Words: Normalising Torture in How It Is --; Bibliography --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474460484; 9783110780413
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474460484
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Seán Kennedy.

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.