List of Figures Notes on Contributors Foreword Shane Weller (University of Kent, UK) Acknowledgements Introduction: Samuel Beckett as world literature Thirthankar Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India) and Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez (University of Kent, UK) Part I Translation 1. Bilingual Beckett John Fletcher (University of Kent, UK) 2. Shifting cultural affinities in Molloy: A genetic bilingual approach Dirk Van Hulle (University of Oxford, UK) and Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 3. Samuel Beckett and the politics of post-war translation Thirthankar Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India) 4. Unformed and untranslatable: The global applicability of Beckett's theatre of affect Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson (Mid-Sweden University, Sweden) 5. 100% guaranteed Beckett: An intercultural reading of Beckett's Waiting for Godot as world literature Mary O'Byrne (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and Wei Zheyu (Guangxi Arts University, China) Part II Adaptation 6. Modernism, medium and memory Mischa Twitchin (Goldsmiths University of London, UK) 7. Knock, knock, who's there? The circulation of Macbeth, Ulysses and the myth of Echo and Narcissus in Ohio Impromptu Laurens de Vos (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 8. Echoes, rags and bones: A few Brazilian Becketts on the way Fabio de Souza Andrade (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) 9. Samuel Beckett's Fin de partie in Hungary: A brief reception history Anita Rakoczy (Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church, Hungary) 10. Tracing Beckett in the avant-garde theatre of mainland China Liu Aiying (Sichuan International Studies University, China) Part III Circulation 11. What goes around comes around: Godot's circularity and world literature Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez (University of Kent, UK) 12. Unworlding world literature: Or how Godot travels from a country road to the world Arka Chattopadhyay (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India) 13. Godot's arrivals: Beckettian and anti-Beckettian discourses in Bulatovic's Godot Has Arrived and Komanin's Godot Has Arrived to Collect His Dues Snezana Kalinic (University of Belgrade, Serbia) 14. Waiting for the arrivant: Godot in two poems by Nizar Qabbani Hania A. M. Nashef (American University of Sharjah, UAE) 15. Forgetfulness of the past as revealed in Minoru Betsuyaku's Godot Has Come: A play inspired by Waiting for Godot Mariko Hori Tanaka (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) Index
