The subaltern Ulysses

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The subaltern Ulysses

Enda Duffy

University of Minnesota Press, c1994

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Size of pbk.: 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780816623280

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Might an IRA bomb and James Joyce's "Ulysses" have anything in common? Could this masterpiece of modernism, written at the violent moment of Ireland's national emergence, actually be the first post-colonial novel? Exploring the relation of "Ulysses" to the colony in which it is set, and to the nation being born as the book was written, Enda Duffy uncovers a post-colonial modernism - and so, traces another unsuspected strain within the one-time critical monolith. In the years between 1914 and 1921, as Joyce was composing his text, Ireland became the first colony of the British Empire to gain its independence in this century after a violent anti-colonial war. Duffy juxtaposes "Ulysses" with documents and photographs from the archives of both empire and insurgency, and with recent post-colonial literary texts, to analyze the political unconscious of subversive stategies, twists on class and gender that render patriarchal colonist culture unfamiliar. "Ulysses", he argues, is actually a guerrilla text, and here he shows how the book pinpoints colonial regimes of surveillance, mocks imperial stereotypes of the "native", exposes nationalism and other chauvinistic ideologies of "imagined community" as throwbacks to the colonial ethos, and makes way for the post-colonial subject. A critical intervention in the massive "Joyce industry" founded on the rhetoric and aesthetics of high modernism, his book shows us Ulysses, as well as the origins of post-colonial textuality, in a startling new way.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: post-colonialism and modernism: the case of "Ulysses"
  • Mimic beginnings: nationalism, ressentiment, and the imagined community in the opening of "Ulysses"
  • Traffic accidents: the modernist flaneur and post-colonial culture
  • "And I belong to a race . . .": the spectacle of the native and the politics of partition in "Cyclops"
  • "The whores will be busy": terrorism, prostitution and the abject woman in "Circe"
  • Molly alone: questioning community and closure in the Nostos.
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: pbk ISBN 9780816623297

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The Subaltern Ulysses was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. How might an IRA bomb and James Joyce's Ulysses have anything in common? Could this masterpiece of modernism, written at the violent moment of Ireland's national emergence, actually be the first postcolonial novel? Exploring the relation of Ulysses to the colony in which it is set, and to the nation being born as the book was written, Enda Duffy uncovers a postcolonial modernism and in so doing traces another unsuspected strain within the one-time critical monolith. In the years between 1914 and 1921, as Joyce was composing his text, Ireland became the first colony of the British Empire to gain its independence in this century after a violent anticolonial war. Duffy juxtaposes Ulysses with documents and photographs from the archives of both empire and insurgency, as well as with recent postcolonial literary texts, to analyze the political unconscious of subversive strategies, twists on class and gender, that render patriarchal colonialist culture unfamiliar. Ulysses, Duffy argues, is actually a guerrilla text, and here he shows how Joyce's novel pinpoints colonial regimes of surveillance, mocks imperial stereotypes of the "native," exposes nationalism and other chauvinistic ideologies of "imagined community" as throwbacks to the colonial ethos, and proposes versions of a postcolonial subject. A significant intervention in the massive "Joyce industry" founded on the rhetoric and aesthetics of high modernism, Duffy's insights show us not only Ulysses, but also the origins of postcolonial textuality, in a startling new way.Enda Duffy is assistant professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: post-colonialism and modernism: the case of "Ulysses"
  • Mimic beginnings: nationalism, ressentiment, and the imagined community in the opening of "Ulysses"
  • Traffic accidents: the modernist flaneur and post-colonial culture
  • "And I belong to a race . . .": the spectacle of the native and the politics of partition in "Cyclops"
  • "The whores will be busy": terrorism, prostitution and the abject woman in "Circe"
  • Molly alone: questioning community and closure in the Nostos.

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