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The essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of Samuel Beckett's major works in the context of his international presence and circulation, particularly the translation, adaptation, appropriation and cultural reciprocation of his oeuvre. A Nobel Prize winner who published and self-translated in both French and English across literary genres, Beckett is recognized on a global scale as a preeminent author and dramatist of the 20th century. Samuel Beckett as World Literature brings together a wide range of international contributors to share their perspectives on Beckett's presence in countries such as China, Japan, Serbia, India and Brazil, among others, and to flesh out Beckett's relationship with postcolonial literatures and his place within the 'canon' of world literature.
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK)
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Samuel Beckett as world literature
Thirthankar Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India) and Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez (University of Kent, UK)
Part I Translation
1. Bilingual Beckett
John Fletcher (University of Kent, UK)
2. Shifting cultural affinities in Molloy: A genetic bilingual approach
Dirk Van Hulle (University of Oxford, UK) and Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
3. Samuel Beckett and the politics of post-war translation
Thirthankar Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India)
4. Unformed and untranslatable: The global applicability of Beckett's theatre of affect
Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson (Mid-Sweden University, Sweden)
5. 100% guaranteed Beckett: An intercultural reading of Beckett's Waiting for Godot as world literature
Mary O'Byrne (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and Wei Zheyu (Guangxi Arts University, China)
Part II Adaptation
6. Modernism, medium and memory
Mischa Twitchin (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
7. Knock, knock, who's there? The circulation of Macbeth, Ulysses and the myth of Echo and Narcissus in Ohio Impromptu
Laurens de Vos (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
8. Echoes, rags and bones: A few Brazilian Becketts on the way
Fábio de Souza Andrade (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
9. Samuel Beckett's Fin de partie in Hungary: A brief reception history
Anita Rákóczy (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary)
10. Tracing Beckett in the avant-garde theatre of mainland China
Liu Aiying (Sichuan International Studies University, China)
Part III Circulation
11. What goes around comes around: Godot's circularity and world literature
Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez (University of Kent, UK)
12. Unworlding world literature: Or how Godot travels from a country road to the world
Arka Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India)
13. Godot's arrivals: Beckettian and anti-Beckettian discourses in Bulatovic's Godot Has Arrived and Komanin's Godot Has Arrived to Collect His Dues
Snežana Kalinic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
14. Waiting for the arrivant: Godot in two poems by Nizar Qabbani
Hania A. M. Nashef (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
15. Forgetfulness of the past as revealed in Minoru Betsuyaku's Godot Has Come: A play inspired by Waiting for Godot
Mariko Hori Tanaka (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
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