Beckett’s Masculinity

This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre. This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-7 Traumatized Masculinity and Beckett’s Return....Pages 9-37 The Masculine Protest: Murphy and Watt....Pages 39-66 Return in the Postwar Fiction....Pages 67-94 Embodying Lost Masculinity in Waiting for Godot and Endgame....Pages 95-117 Rewinding Krapp’s Last Tape: The Return of Anglo-Irish Masculinity....Pages 119-134 The Not I of Gender Identity in the Women-Centered Plays....Pages 135-149 “The Churn of Stale Words in the Heart Again”: Beckett’s Final Return....Pages 151-167 Conclusion....Pages 169-170 Back Matter....Pages 171-203 This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre--Résumé de l'éditeur