Beckett's Political Imagination by Emilie Morin (review)

In the scholarship that connects Beckett to cultural studies, a quick survey of recent research shows work on Beckett and neurology, Beckett and sound studies, Beckett and climate change, Beckett and the War on Terror, and Beckett and computer coding. Beckett's novels, plays, and characters are...

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Published inModernism/Modernity Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 447 - 450
Main Author Kincaid, Andrew
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.04.2019
Subjects
Aesthetics
Ambiguity
Anthologies
Anti-colonialism
Authorship
Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)
Biographies
Collaboration
Cultural change
Cultural history
Literary characters
Literary devices
Literary translation
Materialism
Migrants
Modernism
Morin, Emilie
Nonfiction
Novels
Political activism
Political history
Politics
Prose
Revisionism
War
Writers
Writing
France
Ireland
Europe
Africa
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Summary:In the scholarship that connects Beckett to cultural studies, a quick survey of recent research shows work on Beckett and neurology, Beckett and sound studies, Beckett and climate change, Beckett and the War on Terror, and Beckett and computer coding. Beckett's novels, plays, and characters are famously caught between abstraction and materialism, between a universal humanism and the echoing of very particular circumstances (postcolonial Ireland, postwar France, the Cold War). Chapter 4, "Turning Points: Torture, Dissent, and the Algerian War of Independence," explores the intersection between his late, short anguished prose and the current state of geopolitics, including the deployment of torture, attacks on free speech, and the free movement of migrants. Any student of Beckett, of literary modernism, or of cultural history will learn how art and life, politics and aesthetics, are inseparable.
ISSN:1071-6068
1080-6601
1080-6601
DOI:10.1353/mod.2019.0027