Beckett Beyond the Normal (Paperback)

Paperback. Explores Becketts 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 Becketts 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 Becketts 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. This book examines why Becketts writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …