Beckett and politics / William Davies, Helen Bailey, editors.
Davies, William, 1991- editor.; Bailey, Helen, editor.
2021
PR149.P6 B43 2021
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Title Beckett and politics / William Davies, Helen Bailey, editors.
ISBN 9783030471101 (electronic bk.)
3030471101 (electronic bk.)
3030471098
9783030471095
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47110-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 319 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-47110-1 doi
Call Number PR149.P6 B43 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 828.91409
Summary 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.
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Added Author Davies, William, 1991- editor.
Bailey, Helen, editor.
Series New directions in Irish and Irish American literature.
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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.

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