Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy - Molloy, Malone Dies and the Unnamable - and How It Is.

Intro -- Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable and How It Is -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Trilogy Bodies: -- Impotent Bodies -- Impotent Creatures -- Impotent Gods -- Making Bodies -- Making Creatures -- Making Gods -- Chapter 2 Trilogy Words -- Impotent Words -- Wasted Words -- The Impotent Writer -- Making Words -- Human Words -- Divine Words -- Chapter 3 Ambiguous Bodies -- Womb or Tomb? -- The Grotesque and the Sublime -- Ambiguous Gods -- Chapter 4 Ambiguous Words -- Killing Words? -- Negative Word Saying -- Silence and Music -- Chapter 5 Bodies and Words in How It Is -- Murmurs, Mud and Sardines: Uncertain Beginnings -- Voicing the Body -- Writing the Body -- Repeating the Self -- Cyclical Makings and Unmakings -- All of Humanity or Only Self? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy is situated at the intersection of the aesthetic, socio-political and theoretical construction of being and not-being; it is about making the self, making others, and making words, set against being unable to make the self, others and words. Concentrating on Samuel Beckett's prose works, though also focusing on some of his dramatic works, the book aims to problematize the categories of 'impotence' and 'making' by showing Beckett's quasi-deconstructive treatment of them as seen through his narrators' images of being unable to make self, other creatures and words (impotence), along with his narrators' images of making self, other creatures and words (making). By demonstrating that his narrators, while being impotent, nevertheless gestate and produce new entities from their bodies in the same way as a mother does a child, the book aims to reveal how, for Beckett's narrators, creativity in its widest sense is envisaged.

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