Chapter Slow Violence and Slow Going Encountering Beckett in the Time of Climate Catastrophe

This This chapter reads Beckett's fascination with what Steven Connor has called 'slow going' alongside Rob Nixon's description of the 'slow violence' of climate breakdown. Following Nixon's suggestion that 'slow violence' does not register readily in nar...

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Main Author: Salisbury, Laura (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2023
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