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"While, from the outside, Joyce studies might appear monolithic, from within, it is manifold, divergent, and lively. The sixteen essays in this volume indicate an expanded and interconnected conversation that brings into relation hitherto distant locales and types of criticism. Taking European, African, Latin American, trans-continental and global perspectives, these essays work within and between a range of critical approaches and vantage points. Many of them engage in new ways with the discussions of Irish history and politics begun by in the mid-nineties by scholars such as Emer Nolan, Vincent J. Cheng, Marjorie Howes, and Derek Attridge. These historical and political concerns have continued to bear fruit in recent years, as evidenced by works by Cheng, Luke Gibbons, and Andrew Gibson. Several of the essays in this volume bring these concerns into relation with issues such as queerness, race, and transnational literary relations. Others examine issues of composition and publication, copyright law, translation, and the history of modernist criticism"--
List of contents
Introduction Catherine Flynn; Part I. Scope: 1. (Post)colonial modernity in Ulysses and Accra Ato Quayson; 2. Joyce and race in the twenty-first century Malcolm Sen; 3. Dubliners and French naturalism Catherine Flynn; 4. Joyce and Latin American literature: Transperipherality and modernist form José Luis Venegas; 5. The multiplication of translation Sam Slote; 6. Copyright, freedom, and the fragmented public domain Robert Spoo; 7. Ulysses in the world Sean Latham; Part II. Detail: 8. The intertextual condition Dirk Van Hulle; 9. The macrogenesis of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake Ronan Crowley; 10. After the Little Review: Joyce in transition Scarlett Baron; 11. Popular Joyce, for better or worse David Earle; Part III. Perspective: 12. Joyce's nonhuman ecologies Katherine Ebury; 13. Medical humanities Vike Plock; 14. Joyce's queer possessions Patrick Mullen; 15. The Wake, ideology and literary institutions Finn Fordham; 16. Joyce as a generator of new critical history Jean-Michel Rabaté.
Summary
This volume examines Joyce's works and their reception in the light of a larger set of concerns: a diverse international terrain of scholarly modes and methodologies, an imperilled environment, and crises of racial justice. It seeks to use Joyce's canonical centrality to inform modernist studies more broadly.
