James Joyce, Ulysses, and the construction of Jewish identity

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Representations of "the Jew" have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies; in James Joyce, Ulysses, and the construction of Jewish identity Neil R. Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious, and political discourse about "the Jew" forms a unifying component of his career. Davison offers new biographical material to support the claim that "the Jew" was a dynamic aspect of Joyce's imagination from youth to adulthood, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses to show how Joyce draws on Christian folklore, Dreyfus Affair propaganda, Sinn Fein politics, and theories of Jewish sexual perversion and financial conspiracy.

subjects: Antisemitism,  Biography,  Characters,  History,  Irish Novelists,  Jews,  Jews in literature,  Leopold Bloom (Fictitious character),  Novelists, Irish,  Religion,  Stereotype (Psychology) in literature,  Joyce, james, 1882-1941,  Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature,  Juifs dans la littérature,  Antisémitisme,  Histoire,  Stéréotypes dans la littérature,  Romanciers irlandais,  Biographies,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Ulysses (Joyce, James)

People: James Joyce (1882-1941)

Times: 20th century