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On (Not) Waiting for Godot: Absurdity and Action in Mississippi

On (Not) Waiting for Godot: Absurdity and Action in Mississippi This article traces the reinvention and circulation of existential thought and action through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the first half of the 1960s, especially in Mississippi. Here, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, and the founders of the Free Southern Theater, among others, immersed themselves in the existential questions of freedom and responsibility, pointing the way toward ethical action at a time when there was, as the characters of the FST’s production of Waiting for Godot put it, “nothing to be done.” http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Literature Duke University Press

On (Not) Waiting for Godot: Absurdity and Action in Mississippi

American Literature , Volume 95 (1) – Mar 1, 2023

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Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press
ISSN
0002-9831
eISSN
1527-2117
DOI
10.1215/00029831-10345449
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Abstract

This article traces the reinvention and circulation of existential thought and action through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the first half of the 1960s, especially in Mississippi. Here, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, and the founders of the Free Southern Theater, among others, immersed themselves in the existential questions of freedom and responsibility, pointing the way toward ethical action at a time when there was, as the characters of the FST’s production of Waiting for Godot put it, “nothing to be done.”

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American LiteratureDuke University Press

Published: Mar 1, 2023

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