Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel ISBN-13: 9780521113885

ISBN-13: 9780521113885

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Bixby, Patrick

Details: Samuel Beckett has long been seen as a distinctly apolitical and ahistorical writer, but this reputation fails to do him justice. Placing Becketts novels in the context of the newly-liberated Irish Free State, Patrick Bixby explores for the first time their confrontation with the legacies of both Irish nationalism and British imperialism. In doing so, he reveals Becketts fiction as a remarkable example of how postcolonial writing addresses the relationships between private consciousness and public life, as well as those between the novel form and a cultural environment including not only the literary tradition, but also political speeches, national monuments, and anthropological studies. With special attention to these relationships, the study demonstrates Becketts challenge to familiar narratives of personal identity and communal belonging, which makes his writing integral to understanding the history of the novel and the fate of modernism, in addition to the emergence of postcolonial literature.

Release Date: 14-12-2009

Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English

Part Number: 9780521113885

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 246