James Joyce's Judaic Other

by Marilyn Reizbaum

Book Overview

How does recent scholarship on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension of James Joyce's writing? What light has Joyce himself already cast on the complex question of their relationship? This book poses these questions in terms of models of the other drawn from psychoanalytic and cultural studies and from Jewish cultural studies, arguing that in Joyce the emblematic figure of otherness is "the Jew."

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804734739
• ISBN13: 9780804734738
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"