Samuel Beckett and trauma

✍ Scribed by Mariko Hori Tanaka; Yoshiki Tajiri; Michiko Tsushima (editors)

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 213
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Samuel Beckett and trauma, the collection of eight essays by leading academics, broadens and enriches the present fields of both trauma studies and Beckett studies by illuminating the uniqueness of the trauma in Beckett’s work in relation to historical contexts. It also provides new perspectives for discussing trauma and literature more generally.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Trauma symptoms
Beckett and trauma: the father’s death and the sea
‘Void cannot go’: trauma and actor process in the theatre of Samuel Beckett
Part II: Body and subjectivity
Insignificant residues: trauma, face and figure in Samuel Beckett
‘The skin of words’: trauma and skin in Watt
Bodily object voices in Embers
Part III: Historical and cultural contexts
Trauma and ordinary objects in Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett
Smiling tigers: trauma, sexuality and creaturely life in Echo’s Bones
The global trauma of the nuclear age in Beckett’s post-war plays
Index

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