Samuel Beckett and Trauma

Mariko Hori Tanaka is Professor of English at Aoyama Gakuin University, TokyoYoshiki Tajiri is Professor of English at University of TokyoMichiko Tsushima is an Associate Professor Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Tsukuba, Japan

• Introduction – Mariko Hori Tanaka, Yoshiki Tajiri and Michiko Tsushima with Robert EaglestonePart I: Trauma symptoms1. Beckett and trauma: father’s death and the sea – Julie Campbell2. ‘Void cannot go’: trauma and actor process in the theatre of Samuel Beckett – Nicholas E. JohnsonPart II: Body and subjectivity3. Insignificant residues: trauma, face and figure in Samuel Beckett – David Houston Jones4. ‘The skin of words’: trauma and skin in Watt – Michiko Tsushima5. Bodily object voices in Embers – Anna SiggPart III: Historical and cultural contexts6. Trauma and ordinary objects in Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett – Yoshiki Tajiri7. Smiling tigers: trauma, sexuality and creaturely life in Echo’s Bones – Conor Carville8. The global trauma of the nuclear age in Beckett’s post-war plays – Mariko hori tanakaIndex

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