Beckett Beyond the Normal /

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,...

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Main Author:	Kennedy, Sean (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb)
Corporate Author:	De Gruyter
Other Authors:	Barilar, Nic (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Brophy, James (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Davies, William (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Heffer, Byron (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Simpson, Hannah (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Valente, Joseph (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb), Walker, Dominic (Contributor, https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Biopolitics in literature Disabilities in literature Sexual orientation in literature Literary Studies LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist
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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

Beckett Beyond the Normal /

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