Joyce, Imperialism, and Postcolonialism »

Leonard Orr is the Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of English at Washington State University. His other published works include Yeats and Postmodernism, also published by Syracuse University Press, A Joseph Conrad Companion, and Problems and Poetics of the Nonaristotelian Novel.

On the surface, James Joyce's work is largely apolitical. Through most of the twentieth century he was the proud embodiment of the rootless intellectual. However, perspectives on the colonial history of Ireland have proliferated in recent years, yielding a subtle and complex conception of the Irish postcolonial experience that has become a major theme in current Joyce scholarship. Highly original and often provocative, these essays bring Joyce powerfully within the ambit of postcolonial studies. Contributors include

Allan Simmons
Eugene O'Brien
Jon Hegglund
Trevor Williams
William Mottolese
Michael Tratner
Christy Burns

Illustrations

From High-Modern Aesthete to Postcolonial Subject: An Introduction to the Political Transformation of Joyce Studies Leonard Orr Orr, Leonard 1

1 Topography and Transformation: A Postcolonial Reading of Dubliners Allan H. Simmons Simmons, Allan H. 12

2 The Return and Redefinition of the Repressed: The Construction of Female Identity in the Writings of James Joyce Eugene O'brien O'brien, Eugene 41

3 Hard Facts and Fluid Spaces: "Ithaca" and the Imperial Archive Jon Hegglund Hegglund, Jon 58

4 Mr. Leopold Bloom, Staunch Britisher The Problem of Identity under Colonialism Trevor Williams Williams, Trevor 75

5 Traveling Ulysses: Reading in the Track of Bloom William C. Mottolese Mottolese, William C. 91

6 What's Wrong with Hybridity: The Impotence of Postmodern Political Ideals in Ulysses and Midnigh's Children Michael Tratner Tratner, Michael 112

7 Postcolonial Cartographies: The Nature of Place in Joyce's Finnegans Wake and in Friel's Translations Christy L. Burns Burns, Christy L. 127

Works Cited 147

Index 163