Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama

This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker's oeuvre. With The Castle as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe; questions of gender, subjectivity and desire; God/religion; aesthetics of the self; autonomy-heteronomy; ethics; and the relation between political and libidinal economy, at stake in 20 other plays by Barker (including Rome, The Power of the Dog, The Bite of the Night, Judith, Possibilities, I Saw Myself, Fence in Its Thousandth Year, The Gaoler's Ache for the Nearly Dead, The Brilliance of the Servant, Golgo, among others).

Represents the first book to apply Deleuze's 'philosophy of the event' to Barker's work Offers a new re-contextualization of The Castle in the context of post-9/11 and Brexit Brings feminist theory to bear on The Castle and other plays

Autorentext
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Drama and Literary Theory at the University of Southampton, UK. He has published in such journals as ANQ, Theatre Quarterly, Textual Practice, Comparative Drama, and the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English. He is the academic translator of Howard Barker's works from English into Persian.

Inhalt
CHAPTER ONE: New Cartographies of Catastrophe and the Ethics of the Non-Human: Howard Barker's Aesthetics since 1980s.- CHAPTER TWO: The Castle and Other Plays.- CHAPTER THREE: Relationality, Desire, and Language.- CHAPTER FOUR: Aporias of Religion in Barker: God, Deconstruction and the Re-Writing of the Bible.- CHAPTER FIVE: Disciplinary Apparatus, Paining the Transgressive Bodies and.- CHAPTER SIX: The Moment of Con-tactile Aesthethics.