Beckett and politics 1st ed.

Author

• Davies, William

Additional Author(s)

• Bailey, Helen

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030471101

Series

New directions in irish and irish American literature

Subject(s)

• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• POLITICS IN LITERATURE
• BECKETT, SAMUEL, 1906-1989

Notes

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Abstract

This collection of essays reveals the extent to which politics is fundamental to our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and writing. Bringing together internationally established and emerging scholars, Beckett and Politics considers Beckett’s work as it relates to three broad areas of political discourse: language politics, biopolitics and geopolitics. Through a range of critical approaches, including performance studies, political theory, gender theory, historicizing approaches and language theory, the book demonstrates how politics is more than just another thematic lens: it is fundamentally and structurally intrinsic to Beckett’s life, his texts and subsequent interpretations of them. This important collection of essays demonstrates that Beckett’s work is not only ripe for political engagement, but also contains significant opportunities for understanding and illuminating the broader relationships between literature, culture and politics.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiv, 319 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction --
Helen Bailey & William Davies BECKETT & LANGUAGE POLITICS: Editors' Preface 2. The Politics of Forms in Beckett's Writing --
Nadia Louar 3. Beckett, Contradiction and a Textual Politics of Change --
Arka Chattopadhyay 4. 'Made of words': Beckett and the Politics of Language --
Alan Graham 5. 'First the Place, Then I'll Find Me in It': The Unnamable's Pronouns and the Politics of Confinement --
James Little BECKETT & BIOPOLITICS: Editors' Preface 6. Beckett, Evangelicalism and the Biopolitics of Famine --
Seán Kennedy 7. Tweaking Misogyny or Misogyny Twisted: Beckett's Take on 'Aristotle and Phyllis' in Happy Days --
Kumiko Kiuchi 8. Insufferable Maternity and Motherhood in 'First Love' --
Brenda O'Connell 9. Beckett, Biopolitics and the Problem of Life --
Marc Farrant 10. Beckett's Portrait of the Artist as a Young 'Post-War Degenerate' --
Giovanna Vincenti 11. Waiting for Godot and the Fascist Aesthetics of the Body --
Hannah Simpson BECKETT & GEOPOLITICS: Editors' Preface 12. Political Theatre and the Beckett Problem --
Emilie Morin 13. 'The air is full of our cries': Staging Godot during apartheid South Africa --
Matthew McFrederick 14. Samuel Beckett's Nominalist Politics and the Pitfalls of 'Presentism' --
Matthew Feldman 15. Samuel Beckett's Subaltern Figures --
Brendan Dowling 16. The Big House in the Suburbs: Home Thoughts from Abroad in Watt --
Feargal Whelan 17. Beckett and the Politics of Empathy in Site-Specific Theatre --
Niamh M. Bowe 18. Towards A Modernism with Meaning: Beckett's Refugees --
Rodney Sharkey Afterword --
Peter Boxall.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00716/21	828.91409 Dav B	Online !	Available