List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK)
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Samuel Beckett as world literature
Thirthankar Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India) and Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez (University of Kent, UK)
Part I Translation
1. Bilingual Beckett
John Fletcher (University of Kent, UK)
2. Shifting cultural affinities in Molloy: A genetic bilingual approach
Dirk Van Hulle (University of Oxford, UK) and Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
3. Samuel Beckett and the politics of post-war translation
Thirthankar Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India)
4. Unformed and untranslatable: The global applicability of Beckettâs theatre of affect
Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson (Mid-Sweden University, Sweden)
5. 100% guaranteed Beckett: An intercultural reading of Beckettâs Waiting for Godot as world literature
Mary OâByrne (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and Wei Zheyu (Guangxi Arts University, China)
Part II Adaptation
6. Modernism, medium and memory
Mischa 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 way
F¡bio de Souza Andrade (University of S£o Paulo, Brazil)
9. Samuel Beckettâs Fin de partie in Hungary: A brief reception history
Anita R¡k³czy (K¡roli G¡sp¡r University of the Reformed Church, Hungary)
10. Tracing Beckett in the avant-garde theatre of mainland China
Liu Aiying (Sichuan International Studies University, China)
Part III Circulation
11. What goes around comes around: Godot's circularity and world literature
Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez (University of Kent, UK)
12. Unworlding world literature: Or how Godot travels from a country road to the world
Arka Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India)
13. Godotâs arrivals: Beckettian and anti-Beckettian discourses in Bulatovicâs Godot Has Arrived and Komaninâs Godot Has Arrived to Collect His Dues
Snežana Kalinic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
14. Waiting for the arrivant: Godot in two poems by Nizar Qabbani
Hania A. M. Nashef (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
15. Forgetfulness of the past as revealed in Minoru Betsuyakuâs Godot Has Come: A play inspired by Waiting for Godot
Mariko Hori Tanaka (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
Index