탈식민주의와 베케트

Postcolonial Beckett and First Love

This essay attempts a kind of meta-commentary on the two major contributions to the Beckett studies within an Irish postcolonial framework: David Lloyd's "Writing in the Shit: Beckett, Nationalism and the Colonial Subject" that has been regarded as the first major study of Beckett's work from the postcolonial perspective and Conor Carville's chapter in his book, The Ends of Ireland, which aims a critical appraisal of Lloyd's essay. After summarizing Lloyd's work, this study then traces how Carville strategically deconstructs Lloyd's theoretical contradictions. In the concluding part, I suggest my own view that the study of postcolonial Beckett should open onto the more inclusive area of the politics of aesthetics.