Politicizing Samuel Beckett’s Postwar Plays

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Yeh, T. -C. (2020). Politicizing Samuel Beckett’s Postwar Plays, 52(170), 89-102. Retrieved from https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=928386
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Title

Politicizing Samuel Beckett’s Postwar Plays

Subtitle
Author

Tzu-Ching, Yeh

Journal

Књижевна историја

Volume
Issue

170

Start page

89

End page

102

ISSN

0350-6428

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URL

https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=928386

Date

2020-2021/10/20/09:10:57

Abstract

Summary/Abstract: This article examines Samuel Beckett’s post-WWII plays in order to contrive a political connection that has received insufficient attention in Beckett studies. The investigation is two-fold: first, I shall make textual analyses of Rough for Radio II and Catastrophe to investigate various performances of linguistic babbles; and second, I shall theorize Giorgio Agamben’s conceptual notions of “bare life” and the “state of exception” based on the analyses done in the first part. This article hopes to throw a useful light on a political reading of Beckett’s work, and to foreground the embedded problems in modern democracy.

Keywords

politics, bare life, Giorgio Agamben, Samuel Beckett, state of exception