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9783906765075

The Body Abject: Self and Text in Jean Genet and Samuel Becket

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    9783906765075

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    3906765075

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-08-01
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Summary

This is the first sustained study of the formation of identity in the fictions of Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett. In works like Beckett's prose Trilogy, or Genet's Journal du Voleur and Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, the human is beset by social exclusion and bodily disintegration. The sense of self which arises from this predicament is bound up with the sensation of abjection, the site of both a radical oppression and a paradoxical resurgence. Genet's and Beckett's affiliation with abjection frames questions of selfhood, body and language which continue to be posed with particular urgency in contemporary writing and theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7(4)
Introduction: Abjection: Theory and Writing 11(12)
Origins: Parenting Fictions
23(36)
Transgressive Sanctities
59(30)
Visions and Derelictions
89(32)
The Body Abject
121(40)
Textual Abjects
161(28)
Conclusions 189(4)
Bibliography 193(18)
Index 211

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