Beckett''s Masculinity

Name: Beckett''s Masculinity
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9780230615281
Price: 8100 KES
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ISBN: 9780230615281

by J. Jeffers

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Format Hardback

Book Series New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-10 0230615287

ISBN-13 9780230615281

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 13th, 2010

Print length 203 Pages

Weight 344 grams

Product Classification: Europe Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre.

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.

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