Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama

Alireza Fakhrkonandeh is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Drama and Literary Theory at the University of Southampton, UK. He has published in such journals as ANQ, Theatre Quarterly, Textual Practice, Comparative Drama, and the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English. He is the academic translator of Howard Barker's works from English into Persian.

• CHAPTER ONE: New Cartographies of Catastrophe and the Ethics of the Non-Human: Howard Barker’s Aesthetics since 1980s.- CHAPTER TWO: The Castle and Other Plays.- CHAPTER THREE: Relationality, Desire, and Language.- CHAPTER FOUR: Aporias of Religion in Barker: God, Deconstruction and the Re-Writing of the Bible.- CHAPTER FIVE:  Disciplinary Apparatus, Paining the Transgressive Bodies and.- CHAPTER SIX: The Moment of Con-tactile Aesthethics.