Engagement and indifference : Beckett and the political / edited by Henry Sussman and Christopher Devenney. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2001. - vii, 176 pages ; 23 cm.

Based on a conference held in 1993 at SUNY/Buffalo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the politics of language-based systems / Henry Sussman -- Company: the voice of language / Raymond Federman -- Unwording beyond negation, erasures, and Reticentia: Beckett's committed silence / Carla Locatelli -- The politics of small differences: Beckett's The unnamable / Gabriele Schwab -- A descent from clowns / Christian Prigent -- "Going to BEthiCKETT on the way to heaven": the politics of self-reflection in postmodern fiction / Marcel Cornis-Pope -- Lost in the mall: Beckett, Federman, space / Brian McHale -- The same old hag: gender and (in)difference in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy / AnJanette Brush -- What remains? / Christopher Devenney -- Beckett [f]or nothing / Raymond Federman.

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