Len Platt

Joyce, Race and 'Finnegans Wake' (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Len Platt charts a fresh 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511267239
• Artikelnr.: 38216022

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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
Notes
Index.