Semicolonial Joyce - Softcover

Attridge, Derek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521666287 ISBN 13: 9780521666282

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

James Joyce's fiction constantly engages with an Ireland whose present and past is marked by the long struggle to achieve full independence from Britain. Semicolonial Joyce is a collection of essays addressing the importance of Ireland's colonial situation in understanding Joyce's work. The volume brings together leading commentators on the Irish dimension of Joyce's writing, such as Vincent J. Cheng, Seamus Deane, Enda Duffy, Luke Gibbons, David Lloyd, and Emer Nolan, to present a range of voices rather than a single position on a topic which has had a major impact on Joyce criticism in recent years. Contributors explore Joyce's ambivalent and shifting response to Irish nationalism and reconsider his writing in the context of the history of Western colonialism. The essays both draw on and question the achievements of postcolonial theory, and provide insights into Joyce's resourceful engagement with political issues that remain highly topical today.

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Review

'Each of the writers included here ... offers cogent and constructive accounts of Joyce's writing that further our understanding of an increasingly complex area of study ...' James Joyce Literary Supplement

Book Description

Semicolonial Joyce is a collection of essays addressing the importance of Ireland's colonial situation in understanding the work of James Joyce. The volume reflects the ambivalences in Joyce's relationship with Irish nationalism, bringing together leading commentators on a topic which has attracted great debate in recent years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521666287
• ISBN 13: 9780521666282
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280