TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ila Ahlawat
PY  - 2018
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781788744232
TI  - The Gaze of the Caged Woman
T2  - Sexuality and Performance in Selected Beckett Plays
DO  - 10.3726/b13480
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057030
N2  - This book investigates the themes of female entrapment and the feminine gaze, and explores how they function as theatrical metaphors in Samuel Beckett’s later plays. It offers a novel perspective on love between Beckettian women, interrogating the trope of bodily sickness and its manifestations on the stage, and analysing how this relates to queer drives in women. Ambitious and thought-provoking, the book engages with the work of a range of theorists on psychoanalysis, feminism, sexuality, voyeurism and theatricality. The arguments presented here will be of interest to specialists in modernism and postmodernism, theatre, and gender studies.
KW  - Gender and Sexuality Studies, Beckettian theatre, Voyeurism, Female Narcissism, Entrapment and Darkness
LA  - English
ER  -