dc.contributor.author | Salisbury, L | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-23T14:53:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-12-17 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-02-23T14:28:34Z | |
dc.description.abstract | This chapter reads Beckett’s fascination with what Steven Connor has called ‘slow going’ alongside Rob Nixon’s description of the ‘slow violence’ of climate breakdown. Following Nixon’s suggestion that ‘slow violence’ does not register readily in narratives and temporalities of crisis, I examine Beckett’s attention to what remains in a paradoxically stuck and ongoing time. Suggesting that Beckett’s work sticks with and witnesses catastrophe rather than crisis, the chapter uses The Lost Ones to explore Beckett’s commitment to staying with a disaster that cannot be overcome, alongside the articulation of a giving up that is not a decision but part of a drive to go on. Using Beckett’s interest in Freud’s death drive, I suggest that Beckett’s later texts work through materialisations of attachment and dependence as a way of thinking with and living with, rather than denying or repressing, the reality of the ‘nothing to be done’. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Wellcome Trust | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 155-174 | |
dc.identifier.citation | In: Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe, edited by Michiko Tsushima, Yoshiki Tajiri, and Mariko Hori Tanaka, pp. 155-174 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/978-3-031-08368-6_9 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 205400/Z/16/Z | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/132531 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-3526-8440 (Salisbury, Laura) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under embargo until 17 December 2024 in compliance with publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2022 Palgrave Macmillan | en_GB |
dc.subject | Beckett | en_GB |
dc.subject | Anthropocene | en_GB |
dc.subject | climate | en_GB |
dc.subject | catastrophe | en_GB |
dc.title | Slow Violence and Slow Going: Encountering Beckett in the Time of Climate Catastrophe | en_GB |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-23T14:53:35Z | |
dc.contributor.editor | Tsushima, M | |
dc.contributor.editor | Tajiri, Y | |
dc.contributor.editor | Tanaka, MH | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-031-08367-9 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | Cham | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Palgrave Macmillan via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe | |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-12-17 | |
rioxxterms.type | Book chapter | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-02-23T14:51:13Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |