Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama From Catastrophe to Anastrop
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
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Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
Body and Event in Howard Barker’s Drama
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
Body and Event in Howard Barker’s Drama From Catastrophe to Anastrophe in The Castle and Other Plays
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh University of Southampton Southampton, UK
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To my love, Sara and my son, Surena
Author’s Preface: New Cartographies of Catastrophe
There is always only one question in the ethic of truths: how will I, as some- one, continue to exceed my own being? How will I link the things I know, in a consistent fashion, via the effects of being seized by the not-known? (Badiou, Ethics 50) You are in terror of your sensitivity. You are in terror of your soul…One day your soul will burst out of its servitude … And run screaming through the empty galleries of your mind. It will send the doors of your conscience flying back on their hinges, your brain will shudder with the sound of crashing doors, I pity you, you will have no sleep. (The Power of the Dog 20)
This book takes event and the pivotal loci of the occurrence of the event— to wit, the body, language, and the unconscious and consciousness of the subject—as its focal points. Commonly not taken, by the critical establishment, as a seismograph for the manifestations of the zeitgeist, Howard Barker’s work, as is claimed in this book, maps out not only an “ontology of the present”1 but also an “ontology of the non-present.” Barker accomplishes this twofold tas
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