The Body Abject
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9783906765075
Paperback|9783906765075
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Overview
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 Voleurand 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.
| ISBN-13 | 9783906765075 |
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| ISBN-10 | 3906765075 |
| Weight | 0.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 0.50 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $92.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 213 pages |
| Publisher | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Published On | 2000-09-06 |
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