Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the trauma of history : reading, narrative and postcolonialism

The Resource Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the trauma of history : reading, narrative and postcolonialism
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Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the trauma of history : reading, narrative and postcolonialism
Title remainder
reading, narrative and postcolonialism
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Christine van Boheemen -Saaf
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Language
eng
Summary
In Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History, Christine van Boheemen-Saaf examines the relationship between Joyce's postmodern textuality and the traumatic history of colonialism in Ireland. Joyce's influence on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Derrida's philosophy, Van Boheemen-Saaf suggests, ought to be viewed from a postcolonial perspective. She situates Joyce's writing as a practice of indirect 'witnessing' to a history that remains unspeakable. The loss of a natural relationship to language in Joyce calls for a new ethical dimension in the process of reading. The practice of reading becomes an act of empathy to what the text cannot express in words. In this way, she argues, Joyce's work functions as a material location for the inner voice of Irish cultural memory. This book engages with a wide range of contemporary critical theory and brings Joyce's work into dialogue with thinkers such as Zizek, Adorno, Lyotard, as well as feminism and postcolonial theory
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CaPaEBR
Dewey number
823/.912
Index
index present
LC call number
PR6019.O9
LC item number
Z525976 1999eb
Literary form
non fiction
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  • standards specifications
  • bibliography

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