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

• Autore: Boheemen Christine van
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823/.912
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Joyce, Derrida, Lacan & the Trauma of History
• Titolo autorizzato: Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the trauma of history
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454562303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II