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.
| ISBN: | 9783906765075 |
| Publication date: | 6th September 2000 |
| Author: | David Houston Jones |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissen |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 213 pages |
| Series: | Modern French Identities |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
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 Body Abject features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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The Body Abject was written by David Houston Jones and published by Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissen
The Body Abject has 213 pages
Yes it is part of Modern French Identities series