From "Murphy "to "Rockaby" to "Worstward Ho," "Beckett's
Masculinity" illustrates how Samuel Beckett's work functions as a
testament to the site of memory for the historically erased
twentieth-century Protestant, Anglo-Irish community. Jennifer
Jeffers ably shows how Beckett converted his own personal traumatic
loss of a masculine, patriarchal national identity into a sustained
group of obsessive images in his texts. As Beckett's work matured,
he utilized the strategies of emasculation and gender distortion to
dismantle Western masculinity. "Beckett's Masculinity" shows that
Western hegemonic masculinity was a source of private trauma and
anxiety for Beckett; yet, he eventually transformed the
twentieth-century literary landscape by harnessing the power of
parodied masculinity and perverted gender in his work.
General
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century |
| Release date: |
November 2009 |
| First published: |
November 2009 |
| Authors: |
J Jeffers
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
203 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-230-61528-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: history & criticism >
Literary theory
|
| LSN: |
0-230-61528-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780230615281 |
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