'Consequences of this Climate': Disabling Environmental Effects in Beckett's Late Work

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jobs.2024.0416" target="_blank" >10.3366/jobs.2024.0416</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

'Consequences of this Climate': Disabling Environmental Effects in Beckett's Late Work

Original language description

This article analyses the change in the representation of disability in Beckett&apos;s work from medical impairments in the 1940s and 1950s to bodies that are limited by environmental conditions from the 1960s onwards. I suggest the term ‘disability effects’ to describe the condition of characters who are limited or harmed by the harsh environments of Beckett&apos;s imagination. A ‘disability effect’ arises from the interaction between a harmful environment and a human body through conditions such as confinement, toxic atmosphere, or extreme heat. The representation of disability in Beckett&apos;s later work thus places at the centre of attention harmed bodies that are marginalised in too many discourses around the Anthropocene or held up as a warning sign for the terrible consequences of inaction, and can be read as a critique of ableist attitudes, which are also common in environmental movements.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60204 - General literature studies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Beckett Studies

ISSN

0309-5207

e-ISSN

1759-7811

Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

41-54

UT code for WoS article

001263112200004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85197786077