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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454562303321

Autore

Boheemen Christine van

Titolo

Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the trauma of history : reading, narrative and postcolonialism / / Christine van Boheemen -Saaf [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-107-11778-X

0-521-03531-7

0-511-15006-7

0-511-48533-6

0-511-32459-6

1-280-16277-5

0-511-11788-4

0-511-04849-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

823/.912

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and literature - Ireland

Psychological fiction, English - History and criticism

Literature and history - Ireland - History - 20th century

Postmodernism (Literature) - Ireland

Psychic trauma in literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Colonies in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The stolen birthright: the mimesis of original loss -- Representation in a postcolonial symbolic -- The language of the outlaw -- The primitive scene of representation: writing gender -- Materiality in Derrida, Lacan, and Joyce's embodied text.

Sommario/riassunto

In Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History, Christine van Boheemen-Saaf examines the relationship between Joyce's postmodern textuality and the traumatic history of colonialism in Ireland. Joyce's influence on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Derrida's philosophy, Van



Boheemen-Saaf suggests, ought to be viewed from a postcolonial perspective. She situates Joyce's writing as a practice of indirect 'witnessing' to a history that remains unspeakable. The loss of a natural relationship to language in Joyce calls for a new ethical dimension in the process of reading. The practice of reading becomes an act of empathy to what the text cannot express in words. In this way, she argues, Joyce's work functions as a material location for the inner voice of Irish cultural memory. This book engages with a wide range of contemporary critical theory and brings Joyce's work into dialogue with thinkers such as Zizek, Adorno, Lyotard, as well as feminism and postcolonial theory.