Joyce, Imperialism, and Postcolonialism

Leonard Orr (Edited by)

9780815631880

Hardback, published 22 September 2008

198 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.454 kg

On the surface, James Joyce's work is largely a political. 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.