This article re-reads Beckett’s play Not I (1972) in the light of the ‘Mother and Baby Homes Report’, published in January 2021. Beckett interrogates what James Smith, Clair Wills, and others have referred to as Ireland’s ‘architecture of containment’. Mouth, ‘brought up … with the other waifs’ in a mother and baby home, absorbed religious notions of sin and punishment. Through a close reading of selected passages, the article considers to what extent Not I can be read as a ‘survivor’s testimony’ such as those given to the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes.

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“......父母未知......闻所未闻......”：不是我和“母婴之家报告”

本文重读贝克特的戏剧不是我（1972）根据 2021 年 1 月发布的“母婴之家报告”。贝克特质疑詹姆斯·史密斯、克莱尔·威尔斯和其他人所说的爱尔兰的“遏制架构”。嘴里“和其他流浪儿一起长大”在母婴之家，吸收了关于罪恶和惩罚的宗教观念。通过仔细阅读所选段落，本文考虑了在何种程度上不是我可以被解读为“幸存者的证词”，例如提交给母婴之家调查委员会的证词。