Patrick Bixby

Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of the way Beckett reflects Irish politics after independence in his fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521113885
• ISBN-10: 0521113881
• Artikelnr.: 28244713

Autorenporträt

Patrick Bixby is Assistant Professor of British Literature at Arizona State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Beckett, Ireland, and the postcolonial novel
1. Beckett's book of youth: juvenility and the nation in Dream of Fair to Middling Women
2. Murphy abroad: postcolonial dislocation, the national imaginary, and the 'unhomely'
3. Watt kind of man are you? Anthropology, authenticity, and Ireland
4. Narrating the no-man's-land: deterritorializing Ireland and postcolonial identity in the Trilogy
Index.