Beckett Beyond the Normal / / 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,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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