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Introduction
What is a Beckettian Creature?
Last Human and Becoming-Animal
Concepts of the Creature and Creaturely Life
Beckett After 1945
Testimony: Bearing Witness to the Event and Self. 'Impossibility of Expressing': Art of Failure and Lacuna of Testimony
Fallibility and Dissociation
(In)sovereign Author-Narrators
Obligation to Testify: Mechanics, Enunciation, Ruins
Testimony of Fiction
Power: Master-Servant Relationships. Exercising Writing: Fascist Regime Against Liberal Art
Watt the Fungible and Knott There: Objectified Servant and Absent Master
'A vague supplication': Melancholy in Waiting for Godot
Master-Servant Context: The Holocaust and the Jewish Creature
Biopolitical Struggles: Territory and Custody
Humour: Failure and Degradation. Humour in Failure
Textual Performances
Words and Flesh in Endgame
Metanarrative Tragicomedy
'turd waiting for the flush': Gallows Humour
Survival: Incompleteness and Continuation. 'oh all to end': Beckettian Stirrings Still
Creaturely 'Undeadness'
Repetition and Performance
Forms of Activity and Stasis in Molloy
'finish dying': Death Without Death in Molloy
Epilogue.