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Beckett's bilingual oeuvre has been approached from many angles,
most of which stress its autonomy from understandings of Irishness
emerging from the Irish Literary Revival. Emilie Morin shows that
such autonomy is only apparent, and that Beckett's avant-garde
practices remain bound to the exigencies that govern their very
development.
This volume investigates the rise of human rights discourses
manifested in the global spectrum of theatre and performance since
1945. Essays address topics such as disability, discrimination
indigenous rights, torture, gender violence, genocide and elder
abuse.
Beckett's Political Imagination charts unexplored territory: it
investigates how Beckett's bilingual texts re-imagine political
history, and documents the conflicts and controversies through
which Beckett's political consciousness and affirmations were
mediated. The book offers a startling account of Beckett's work,
tracing the many political causes that framed his writing,
commitments, collaborations and friendships, from the Scottsboro
Boys to the Black Panthers, from Irish communism to Spanish
republicanism to Algerian nationalism, and from campaigns against
Irish and British censorship to anti-Apartheid and international
human rights movements. Emilie Morin reveals a very different
writer, whose career and work were shaped by a unique exposure to
international politics, an unconventional perspective on political
action and secretive political engagements. The book will benefit
students, researchers and readers who want to think about literary
history in different ways and are interested in Beckett's enduring
appeal and influence.
Who were the pioneers who first thought of radio as an art form,
who debated how to write and perform for radio, who discussed
radio's social and political dimensions? Spanning from 1924 to
1938, this anthology brings together long-forgotten texts on sound,
listening and writing by radio enthusiasts, journalists, actors,
radio producers and literary authors who conceptualised the new
radio aesthetic between the two world wars and reflected on radio's
future, as a medium requiring the invention of a new literature,
new modes of performance and new ways of listening. The texts
included here, drawn from British, French, German and Italian radio
cultures, are representative of important pan-European debates
about radio's potential at a critical moment in its history.
Together, they shed light on ideas that shaped not only the
emergence of radio drama, sound art and reportage, but radio as we
know it today.
Beckett's Political Imagination charts unexplored territory: it
investigates how Beckett's bilingual texts re-imagine political
history, and documents the conflicts and controversies through
which Beckett's political consciousness and affirmations were
mediated. The book offers a startling account of Beckett's work,
tracing the many political causes that framed his writing,
commitments, collaborations and friendships, from the Scottsboro
Boys to the Black Panthers, from Irish communism to Spanish
republicanism to Algerian nationalism, and from campaigns against
Irish and British censorship to anti-Apartheid and international
human rights movements. Emilie Morin reveals a very different
writer, whose career and work were shaped by a unique exposure to
international politics, an unconventional perspective on political
action and secretive political engagements. The book will benefit
students, researchers and readers who want to think about literary
history in different ways and are interested in Beckett's enduring
appeal and influence.
"This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew
something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues,
represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's
relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues,
conundrums, and themes play out amid narrative intricacies. The
volume is thus both an astonishingly comprehensive overview and a
series of detailed readings of the intersection between
philosophical texts and Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, offered by a
plurality of voices and bookended by an historical introduction and
a thematic conclusion." - S.E.Gontarski, Journal of Beckett
Studies. "This is an important contribution to ongoing attempts to
understand the relationship of Beckett's work to philosophy. It
breaks some new ground, and helps us to consider not only how
Beckett made use of philosophy but how his own thought might be
understood philosophical." - Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western
Sydney.
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