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    <language>eng</language>
        <publisher>Journal of Irish Studies</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Estudios Irlandeses</journalTitle>
        <eissn>1699-311X</eissn>
            <publicationDate>2019-10-31</publicationDate>
        <volume>14.2</volume>
    <issue>14.2</issue>
        <startPage>78</startPage>
    <endPage>91</endPage>
    <publisherRecordId>9182</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng"><![CDATA[ Beckett’s Queer Atavism ]]></title>

    <authors>
     
      <author>
        <name><![CDATA[ Byron Heffer ]]></name>
        <affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
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      <affiliationName affiliationId="1"><![CDATA[ University of Sussex, England ]]></affiliationName>
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        <abstract language="eng"><![CDATA[ Queer readings of Samuel Beckett’s antipathy to reproduction have focused on his refusal of futurity. This essay expands on previous studies of anti-futurity in Beckett’s work by exploring his fascination with atavism, regression, and decadence. Beckett’s anti-vitalist modernism departs from James Joyce’s preoccupation with the fruitful potentialities of the degenerate body; from his early story “Echo’s Bones” to his final full-length novel How It Is, he links atavism to the queer refusal of generative life. By extension, Beckett’s “queer atavism” presents a striking alternative to recent neovitalist affirmations of the inhuman in queer theory and modernist studies.
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          <keywords language="eng">
              <keyword>Beckett</keyword>
              <keyword>Biopolitics</keyword>
              <keyword>Posthumanism</keyword>
              <keyword>Atavism</keyword>
              <keyword>Queer.</keyword>
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