TY - BOOK AU - Kennedy,Seán AU - Barilar,Nic AU - Brophy,James AU - Davies,William AU - Heffer,Byron AU - Kennedy,Seán AU - Simpson,Hannah AU - Valente,Joseph AU - Walker,Dominic TI - Beckett Beyond the Normal SN - 9781474460460 AV - PR6003.E282 U1 - 828.91409 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Biopolitics in literature KW - Disabilities in literature KW - Sexual orientation in literature KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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, the disabling, the abnormalising aspects of the mature worksAbsorbs and transcends the philosophy/history binary that has shaped the last twenty yearsBrings Beckett Studies into the twenty-first century as the first intersectional volume to address queerness, disability and biopolitics togetherThis 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474460484 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474460484 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474460484/original ER -