Samuel Beckett as World Literature

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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. Cover Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Samuel Beckett as world literature Thirthankar Chakraborty and Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez 1 Bilingual Beckett John Fletcher 2 Shifting cultural affinities in Molloy: A genetic bilingual approach Dirk Van Hulle and Pim Verhulst 3 Samuel Beckett and the politics of post-war translation Thirthankar Chakraborty 4 Unformed and untranslatable: The global applicability of Beckett’s theatre of affect Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson 5 100% guaranteed Beckett: An intercultural reading of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as world literature Mary O’Byrne and Wei Zheyu 6 Modernism, medium and memory Mischa Twitchin 7 Knock, knock, who’s there? The circulation of Macbeth, Ulysses and the myth of Echo and Narcissus in Ohio Impromptu Laurens De Vos 8 Echoes, rags and bones: A few Brazilian Becketts on the way Fábio de Souza Andrade 9 Samuel Beckett’s Fin de partie in Hungary: A brief reception history Anita Rákóczy 10 Tracing Beckett in the avant-garde theatre of mainland China Liu Aiying 11 What goes around comes around: Godot’s circularity and world literature Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez 12 Unworlding world literature: Or how Godot travels from a country road to the world Arka Chattopadhyay 13 Godot’s arrivals: Beckettian and anti-Beckettian discourses in Bulatović’s Godot Has Arrived and Komanin’s Godot Has Arrived to Collect His Dues Snežana Kalinić 14 Waiting for the arrivant: Godot in two poems by Nizār Qabbānī Hania A. M. Nashef 15 Forgetfulness of the past as revealed in Minoru Betsuyaku’s Godot Has Come: A play inspired by Waiting for Godot Mariko Hori Tanaka Index