Joyce, Race, and Empire

Joyce, Race, and Empire
Author: Vincent J. Cheng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1995-05-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521478595

In this first full-length study of race and colonialism in the works of James Joyce, Vincent J. Cheng argues that Joyce wrote insistently from the perspective of a colonial subject of an oppressive empire, and that Joyce's representations of 'race' in its relationship to imperialism constitute a trenchant and significant political commentary, not only on British imperialism in Ireland, but on colonial discourses and imperial ideologies in general. Exploring the interdisciplinary space afforded by postcolonial theory, minority discourse, and cultural studies, and articulating his own cross-cultural perspective on racial and cultural liminality, Professor Cheng offers a ground-breaking study of the century's most internationally influential fiction writer, and of his suggestive and powerful representations of the cultural dynamics of race, power, and empire.

Women and Race in Early Modern Texts

Women and Race in Early Modern Texts
Author: Joyce Green MacDonald
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2002-05-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 113943411X

Joyce Green MacDonald discusses the links between women's racial, sexual, and civic identities in early modern texts. She examines the scarcity of African women in English plays of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the racial identity of the women in the drama and also that of the women who watched and sometimes wrote the plays. The coverage also includes texts from the late fourteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, by, among others, Shakespeare, Jonson, Davenant, the Countess of Pembroke, and Aphra Behn. MacDonald articulates many of her discussions of early modern women's races through a comparative method, using insights drawn from critical race theory, women's history, and contemporary disputes over canonicity, multiculturalism, and Afrocentrism. Seeing women as identified by their race and social standing as well as by their sex, this book will add depth and dimension to discussions of women's writing and of gender in Renaissance literature.

Joyce's Politics

Joyce's Politics
Author: Dominic Manganiello
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317288130

The object of this study, first published in 1980, is to dispel the view that James Joyce had no political views. Although not a political novelist like D. H. Lawrence or Joseph Conrad, political issues and discussions are central to Joyce’s major novels. This title links that political content with Joyce’s own views, and examines the evolution of those views and attitudes. A number of unusual and fascinating sources for Joyce’s thought are uncovered. Joyce’s Politics is thus a thorough review of a neglected aspect of Joyce and his writings, and will be of interest to students of literature.

Semicolonial Joyce

Semicolonial Joyce
Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2000-06-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521666282

A landmark collection of essays examining Joyce's relationship with Irish colonialism and nationalism.

Amnesia and the Nation

Amnesia and the Nation
Author: Vincent J. Cheng
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2018-03-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319718185

This book examines the relationships between memory, history, and national identity through an interdisciplinary analysis of James Joyce’s works—as well as of literary texts by Kundera, Ford, Fitzgerald, and Walker Percy. Drawing on thinkers such as Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Luria, Anderson, and Yerushalmi, this study explores the burden of the past and the “nightmare of history” in Ireland and in the American South—from the Battle of the Boyne to the Good Friday Agreement, from the Civil War to the 2015 Mother Emanuel killings.

Love & Solidarity

Love & Solidarity
Author: Brendan Joyce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2020-09-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735352725

Originally released digitally as "Unemployment Insurance" on international Labor Day, Brendan Joyce's full-length Love & Solidarity arrives on 9/3/2020 with reworked poems from the original release & a third section, exit strategies, which explores the summer of insurrection, mass death & love.

The Creation of Inequality

The Creation of Inequality
Author: Kent Flannery
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674064976

Flannery and Marcus demonstrate that the rise of inequality was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the accumulation of valuables but resulted from conscious manipulation of the unique social logic that lies at the core of every human group. Reversing the social logic can reverse inequality, they argue, without violence.

A Companion to James Joyce

A Companion to James Joyce
Author: Richard Brown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2013-06-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444342940

A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. Brings together 25 newly-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the field Explores Joyce's distinctive cultural place in Irish, British and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere in the world A comprehensive and timely Companion to current debates and possible areas of future development in Joyce studies Offers new critical readings of several of Joyce's works, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses

A History of Irish Modernism

A History of Irish Modernism
Author: Gregory Castle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107176727

This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.