Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History
Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History
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Christine van Boheemen examines the relationship between Joyce's postmodern textuality and the traumatic history of colonialism in Ireland. Joyce's influence on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Derrida's philosophy, Van Boheemen suggests, ought to be viewed from a postcolonial perspective. Joyce's writing bears witness to a history that remains unspeakable, functioning as a material location for the inner voice of Irish cultural memory. This book engages with a wide range of contemporary critical theory and brings Joyce's work into dialogue with thinkers such as Zizek, Adorno, Lyotard, as well as feminism and postcolonial theory.
- Senior Joycean writing on fashionable theme of trauma
- Brings postcolonial studies and Joyce into contact
- Combines Derrida and Lacan with Joyce, feminism and postcolonialism
Reviews & endorsements
Boheemen-Saff's claims are big, her language is dense, and the allusions to major 20th-century thinkers are many; those who like such language and insights will find this is a brilliant study aboust how literature wpeaks to the pshychological and linguistic consequences of colonialism. S. Browner, Choice
Product details
- Published: December 2006
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780521035316
- Length: 240 pages
- Dimensions: 228 × 151 × 9 mm
- Weight: 0.359kg
- Availability: Available
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1. The stolen birthright: the mimesis of original loss
- 2. Representation in a postcolonial symbolic
- 3. The language of the outlaw
- 4. The primitive scene of representation: writing gender
- 5. Materiality in Derrida, Lacan, and Joyce's embodied text
- Conclusion: Joyce's anamorphic mirror
- Bibliography
- Index.
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