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Making the Best of a Bad Job
Representations of Disability, Gender and Old Age in the Novels of Samuel Beckett, Masculinity Studies 11
ISBN/EAN: 9781433187292
Umbreit-Nr.: 2611019
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 212 S.
Format in cm: 1.6 x 23.1 x 15.5
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 30.09.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
- Zusatztext
- This book explores the representations of disability, gender and old age in the novels of Samuel Beckett. His works go against the foundations of Western thought, which has been traditionally focused on success, clarity, learning and ability, while Beckett chose to focus on failure, confusion, decay and impotence. This study purports to show the central importance of the three categories chosen for the general understanding of the writers work. It constitutes an attempt to provide a gendered interpretation of Becketts protagonists, who are increasingly unable to reason, talk or move properly, extremely old and do not fit hegemonic models of masculinity. Beckett, who denies his own ability as an author to understand and explain a chaotic world, chooses these disabled, old men as the ultimate representatives of the human condition and the best models to transmit his worldview. This is a book combining different perspectives and getting to conclusions regarding power structures which are particularly interesting for researchers or students taking courses on the dialectics of alterity, masculinities studies or new readings of Samuel Becketts works. The authors research is based on the main arguments of feminist thought, masculinities studies, disability studies, ageing studies and recent work on Beckett. The ultimate goal of such interdisciplinary approach is to show how different systems of oppression work in similar ways and to draw the political implications of Becketts literary choices, in terms of visibility and solidarity.
- Kurztext
- This book explores the representations of disability, gender and old age in the novels of Samuel Beckett. His works go against the foundations of Western thought, which has been traditionally focused on success, clarity, learning and ability, while Beckett chose to focus on failure, confusion, decay and impotence.
- Autorenportrait
- Manuel Barberá López earned his PhD in Literature (Cum Laude and with an International Mention) at Universitat de València in 2020. He works as a post-doctoral researcher at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, where he analyses representations of ageing masculinities in European literatures and cinemas.