Joyce, Race and 'Finnegans Wake'

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-521-86884-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Len Platt charts a new approach through one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century literature. Using original archival research and detailed close readings, he outlines Joyce's literary response to the racial discourse of twentieth-century politics. Platt's account is the first to position Finnegans Wake in precise historical conditions and to explore Joyce's engagement with European fascism. Race, Platt claims, is a central theme for Joyce, both in terms of the colonial and post-colonial conflicts between the Irish and the British, and in terms of its use by the extreme right. It is in this context that Joyce's engagement with race, while certainly a product of colonial relations, also figures as a wider disputation with rationalism, capitalism and modernity. This political analysis of Finnegans Wake will change the way this key modernist text is read, and will provide a fresh and fascinating historical context for all scholars of Joyce and Modernism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Platt, Len

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Joyce and race: introductory; 2. 'No such race': Finnegans Wake and the Aryan myth; 3. Celt, Aryan and Teuton; 4. 'Our darling breed': the Wake and social Darwinism; 5. Atlanta-Arya: theosophy, race and the Wake; 6. 'Hung Chung Egglyfella': staged race in Ulysses and the Wake; 7. 'And the prankquean pulled a rosy one': filth, Fascism and the family; 8. Race and reading: a conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Platt, Len
Len Platt is Head of the Department of Professional and Community Education at Goldsmiths, University of London.