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Beckett’s Queer Atavism

Byron Heffer

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Queer readings of Samuel Beckett’s antipathy to reproduction have focused on his refusal of futurity. This essay expands on previous studies of anti-futurity in Beckett’s work by exploring his fascination with atavism, regression, and decadence. Beckett’s anti-vitalist modernism departs from James Joyce’s preoccupation with the fruitful potentialities of the degenerate body; from his early story “Echo’s Bones” to his final full-length novel How It Is, he links atavism to the queer refusal of generative life. By extension, Beckett’s “queer atavism” presents a striking alternative to recent neovitalist affirmations of the inhuman in queer theory and modernist studies.  

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History of Great Britain Language and Literature

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Byron Heffer

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Heffer, B. (2019). Beckett’s Queer Atavism. https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DEF.HEFFER.pdf

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Tahun Terbit: 2019
Sumber Database: DOAJ
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