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Beckett Beyond the Normal

Beckett Beyond the Normal

Name: Beckett Beyond the Normal
ISBN: 9781474460460

Seán Kennedy

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Explores Beckett’s artistic vision at the intersection of queer, disability and posthumanist studies

The first volume to address norms and normalcy as an enduring target of Beckettian skepticism

Shifts the emphasis from generic talk of ‘Other Becketts’ to specific accounts of the queer, the disabling, the abnormalising aspects of the mature works

Absorbs and transcends the philosophy/history binary that has shaped the last twenty years

Brings Beckett Studies into the twenty-first century as the first intersectional volume to address queerness, disability and biopolitics together

This 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.

Ano:

2020

Editora:

EUP

Idioma:

english

ISBN 10:

1474460461

ISBN 13:

9781474460460

Arquivo:

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