James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity

Download or read book James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity written by Neil R. Davison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Davison offers new biographical material, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses showing how Joyce draws on Christian folklore, Dreyfus Affair propaganda, Sinn Fein politics, and theories of Jewish sexual perversion and financial conspiracy. Throughout, Joyce confronts the controversy of 'race', the psychology of internalised stereotype, and the contradictions of fin-de-siècle anti-Semitism.