Joyce, race, and empire / Vincent J. Cheng.

In Joyce, Race, and Empire, the 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 his representations of "race" in its relationship t...

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Main Author: Cheng, Vincent John, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Series:Cultural margins ; 3.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Derek Attridge
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Catching the conscience of a race
  • Coda: The case of Stephen D(a)edalus
  • Dubliners: colonialist symptomatics. 3. Dubliners: the exoticized and Orientalized Other. 4. The gratefully oppressed: Joyce's Dubliners. 5. Empire and patriarchy in "The Dead"
  • Ulysses: imagining selves and nations. 6. Imagining selves. 7. Imagining nations. 8. Imagining futures: nations, narratives, selves
  • Finnegans Wake: forays. 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.