White Erethism
Beckett, Crevel, Cunard
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18960974 |
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| Authors | Gabriel Quigley (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 124-139 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interventions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369801x.2023.2290566 |
| OpenAlex | W4389893114 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
From 1931–1933, Samuel Beckett translated nineteen French-language texts for Nancy Cunard’s Negro: An Anthology. Adding up to more than 63,000 words, Beckett’s translations for the anthology are his most extensive single publication. Focusing on his translation of René Crevel’s essay “The Negress in the Brothel” (“La Négresse des bordels”), this essay shows how Beckett injects Crevel’s original text with a critique of the ideology of racial purity by foregrounding the panic over racial purity, degeneration, and “generation hygiene” in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe. This critique resurfaces in his later works Murphy (1938), First Love (1946), and Happy Days (1961)
Art · Art history · Foregrounding · Humanities · Ideology · Literature · Politics · History · Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
| Highly cited | No |
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