Samuel Beckett as World Literature

Thirthankar Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of English at the Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India.Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsForeword Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK)AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Samuel Beckett as world literatureThirthankar Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India) and Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez (University of Kent, UK)Part I Translation1. Bilingual BeckettJohn Fletcher (University of Kent, UK)2. Shifting cultural affinities in Molloy: A genetic bilingual approachDirk Van Hulle (University of Oxford, UK) and Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp, Belgium)3. Samuel Beckett and the politics of post-war translationThirthankar Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India)4. Unformed and untranslatable: The global applicability of Beckett’s theatre of affectCharlotta Palmstierna Einarsson (Mid-Sweden University, Sweden)5. 100% guaranteed Beckett: An intercultural reading of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as world literature Mary O’Byrne (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and Wei Zheyu (Guangxi Arts University, China)Part II Adaptation6. Modernism, medium and memoryMischa Twitchin (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)7. Knock, knock, who's there? The circulation of Macbeth, Ulysses and the myth of Echo and Narcissus in Ohio Impromptu Laurens de Vos (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)8. Echoes, rags and bones: A few Brazilian Becketts on the wayFábio de Souza Andrade (University of São Paulo, Brazil)9. Samuel Beckett’s Fin de partie in Hungary: A brief reception historyAnita Rákóczy (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary)10. Tracing Beckett in the avant-garde theatre of mainland ChinaLiu Aiying (Sichuan International Studies University, China)Part III Circulation11. What goes around comes around: Godot's circularity and world literatureJuan Luis Toribio Vazquez (University of Kent, UK)12. Unworlding world literature: Or how Godot travels from a country road to the worldArka Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India)13. Godot’s arrivals: Beckettian and anti-Beckettian discourses in Bulatovic’s Godot Has Arrived and Komanin’s Godot Has Arrived to Collect His DuesSnežana Kalinic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)14. Waiting for the arrivant: Godot in two poems by Nizar QabbaniHania A. M. Nashef (American University of Sharjah, UAE)15. Forgetfulness of the past as revealed in Minoru Betsuyaku’s Godot Has Come: A play inspired by Waiting for GodotMariko Hori Tanaka (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)Index

Amid the recalibrations of "Postcolonial" literature, with its apparent chronological marker, and 'Commonwealth' literature with its continued ties to the colonizer, Samuel Beckett as World Literature releases Beckett’s oeuvre from the classic Hiberno-Franco tensions. This allows it to move across languages and literary fields - freed from the implications of political power and domination - and function as a transnational entity, situating it and him amid the writers without borders. This volume features acts of reading, translation and adaptation in something of a global, transnational context as a fresh approach to the very crowded field of Beckett Studies and the emerging field of World Literature.