Beckett Beyond the Normal by Kennedy, Seán

Beckett Beyond the Normal (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474460477)

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Beckett Beyond the Normal by Kennedy, Seán

Beckett Beyond the Normal

$27.95
Beckett Beyond the Normal by Kennedy, Seán

Beckett Beyond the Normal

$27.95
Format: Paperback
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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.



    Author: Se疣 Kennedy
    ISBN-10: 147446047X
    ISBN-13: 9781474460477
    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Language: English
    Published: 08/25/2022
    Pages: 168
    Format: Paperback
    Weight: 0.54lbs
    Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.36d
    By Se疣 Kennedy
    By Se疣 Kennedy
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    Se疣 Kennedy is Professor of English with a specialisation in modern Irish literature and culture. He has published widely on the work of Samuel Beckett in Irish contexts, including Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett, edited with a preface (Faber and Faber, 2010), Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive, with Katherine Weiss (Palgrave, 2009). He is the founder of the binennial Queering Ireland conference organisation (2009-present), and is interested in psychoanalysis, queer studies and feminisms.

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