James Joyce and the Problem of Justice : Negotiating Sexual and Colonial Difference

Valente, Joseph

Cambridge University Press（2009/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 300 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521110457
• DDC分類 823.912

Full Description

This is the first full-length study of James Joyce to subject his work to ethical and political analysis. It addresses important issues in contemporary literary and cultural studies surrounding problems of justice, as well as discussions of gender, homosociality and the colonial condition. Valente uses an original theory and psychology of justice through which to explore both the well-known and the more obscure of Joyce's works. He traces the remarkable formal and stylistic evolution that defined Joyce's career, and his progressive attempt to negotiate the context of social difference in racial, colonial, class and sexual terms. By analysing Joyce's verbal strategies within both the psychobiographical and sociohistorical contexts, Valente unlocks the politics of Joyce's unconscious and reveals the legacy of Western political thought.

Contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1. Justice unbound; 2. Joyce's sexual differend; 3. Dread desire: imperialist abjection in Giacomo Joyce; 4. Between/beyond men: male feminism and homosociality in Exiles; 5. Joyce's siren song: 'Becoming-Woman' in Ulysses; Epilogue: trial and mock trial on Joyce; Notes; Index.