"The Subaltern Ulysses " was first published in 1994. Minnesota
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How might an IRA bomb and James Joyce's "Ulysses" have anything
in common? Could this masterpiece of modernism, written at the
violent moment of Ireland's national emergence, actually be the
first postcolonial novel? Exploring the relation of "Ulysses" to
the colony in which it is set, and to the nation being born as the
book was written, Enda Duffy uncovers a postcolonial modernism and
in so doing traces another unsuspected strain within the one-time
critical monolith. In the years between 1914 and 1921, as Joyce was
composing his text, Ireland became the first colony of the British
Empire to gain its independence in this century after a violent
anticolonial war. Duffy juxtaposes "Ulysses" with documents and
photographs from the archives of both empire and insurgency, as
well as with recent postcolonial literary texts, to analyze the
political unconscious of subversive strategies, twists on class and
gender, that render patriarchal colonialist culture unfamiliar.
"Ulysses," Duffy argues, is actually a guerrilla text, and here he
shows how Joyce's novel pinpoints colonial regimes of surveillance,
mocks imperial stereotypes of the "native," exposes nationalism and
other chauvinistic ideologies of "imagined community" as throwbacks
to the colonial ethos, and proposes versions of a postcolonial
subject. A significant intervention in the massive "Joyce industry"
founded on the rhetoric and aesthetics of high modernism, Duffy's
insights show us not only "Ulysses," but also the origins of
postcolonial textuality, in a startling new way.
Enda Duffy is assistant professor of English at the University
of California at Santa Barbara.
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