Joyce: The Return of the Repressed (Contestations)

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Did James Joyce, that icon of modernity, spearhead the dismantling of the Cartesian subject? Or was he a supreme example of a modern man forever divided and never fully known to himself? This volume reads the dialogue of contradictory cultural voices in Joyce’s works―revolutionary and reactionary, critical and subject to critique, marginal and central. It includes ten essays that identify repressed elements in Joyce’s writings and examine how psychic and cultural repressions persistently surface in his texts. Contributors include Joseph A. Boone, Marilyn L. Brownstein, Jay Clayton, Laura Doyle, Susan Stanford Friedman, Christine Froula, Ellen Carol Jones, Alberto Moreirias, Richard Pearce, and Robert Spoo. Joyce Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations for Texts by James Joyce Introduction Part I Making the Artist of Modernity: Stephen Hero, Portrait, Ulysses 1 (Self)Censorship and the Making of Joyce's Modernism 2 Pharmaconomy: Stephen and the Daedalids Part II Repression and the Return of Cultural History: Dubliners and Portrait 3 Uncanny Returns in “The Dead”: Ibsenian Intertexts and the Estranged Infant 4 A Portrait of the Romantic Poet as a Young Modernist: Literary History as Textual Unconscious 5 Simon's Irish Rose: Famine Songs, Blackfaced Minstrels, and Woman's Repression in A Portrait Part III Narratives of Gender, Race, and Sex: Ulysses 6 Races and Chains: The Sexuo-Racial Matrix in Ulysses 7 Staging Sexuality: Repression, Representation, and “Interior” States in Ulysses Part IV Incest, Narcissism, and the Scene of Writing: Ulysses and Finnegans Wake 8 The Preservation of Tenderness: A Confusion of Tongues in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake 9 Textual Mater: Writing the Mother in Joyce 10 Mothers of Invention/Doaters of Inversion: Narcissan Scenes in Finnegans Wake Notes on Contributors Index