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Joyce, Race and 'Finnegans Wake'

By Len Platt

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
052186884X, 9780521868846
Open Library ID
OL22743994M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1709519 bytes)
Pages
222\223
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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