Beckett''s Masculinity
by
J. Jeffers
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
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
Ksh 8,100.00
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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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