Joyce, Race, and Empire
Part of Cultural Margins
- Author: Vincent J. Cheng, University of Southern California
- Date Published: May 1995
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521478595
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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.
Read more- First full-length study of race and colonialism in Joyce's works
- Groundbreaking treatment of Joyce in contemporary cultural and political context
- Third title in exciting new CUP Cultural Margins series
- Foreword by leading Joyce scholar Derek Attridge
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'Inspired by post-colonial theory, Vincent Cheng's Joyce, Race and Empire argues the case for Joyce's subversion of predominant ideologies of race and ethnicity. The book locates itself as a corrective to a critical legacy that has focussed on Joyce's styles and away from the ideological discussions contained in the Joycean texts.' The Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews'The argument offered by Cheng is clear, meticulously drawn, painstakingly organised and pedagogically hyper useful.' James Joyce Literary Supplement
'A groundbreaking, often brilliant study with a firm theoretical framework, and a convincing, sustained, articulate argument. Its revisionary attention to familiar texts will prompt us to rethink what we thought we knew.' Studies in Short Fiction
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- Date Published: May 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521478595
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- contains: 19 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword Derek Attridge
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Catching the conscience of a race
Part I. Dubliners: Colonialist Symptomatics:
3. Dubliners: the exoticized and Orientalised other
4. The gratefully oppressed: Joyce's Dubliners
5. Empire and patriarchy in The Dead
Part II. Ulysses: Imagining Selves and Nations:
6. Imagining selves
7. Imagining nations
8. Imagining futures: nations, narratives, selves
Part III. Finnegan's Wake:
9. White horse, dark horse: Joyce's allhorse of another color
10. The general and the sepoy: imperialism and power in the Museyroom. 11. Conclusion.
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