Book Summary
Representations of "the Jew" have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies; in James Joyce, Ulysses, and the construction of Jewish identity Neil R. Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious, and political discourse about "the Jew" forms a unifying component of his career. Davison offers new biographical material to support the claim that "the Jew" was a dynamic aspect of Joyce's imagination from youth to adulthood, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses to show how Joyce draws on Christian folklore, Dreyfus Affair propaganda, Sinn Fein politics, and theories of Jewish sexual perversion and financial conspiracy. Representations of "the Jew" have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies. Neil Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious, and political discourse about "the Jew" forms a unifying component of his career. He offers new biographical material, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses to show how Joyce confronts the controversy of "race," the psychology of internalized stereotype, and the contradictions of fin-de-siecle anti-Semitism.
Book Details
| Book Name | James Joyce, Ulysses, And The Construction Of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography, And 'The Jew' In Modernist Europe |
| Author | Neil R. Davison, Anthony Julius |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (Sep 1998) |
| ISBN | 9780521636209 |
| Pages | 324 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1864 |
