Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History
Reading, Narrative, and Postcolonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19915454 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Van Boheemen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Publication date | 1999-09-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511485336 |
| OpenAlex | W4233159344 |
| ISBN | 9780511485336 |
| Open Library | OL371459M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · End of history · Feminism · Linguistics · Literature · Perspective (graphical) · Politics · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · Sociology · Textuality · The Imaginary · Visual arts · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · 1882-1941 · 1901-1981 · 20th century · 823/.912 · Colonies dans la littérature · Colonies in literature · Contributions in criticism · Contributions in criticismderrida, jacques · Contributions in criticismlacan, jacques · Criticism · Décolonisation dans la littérature · Decolonization in literature · Écrivains irlandais · Engels · English Psychological fiction · English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh · Et l'histoire · Et la critique · Et la psychologie · European · History · History and criticism · historyjoyce, james · ireland · Irish Authors · Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) · jacques Lacan (1901-1981) · james Joyce (1882-1941) · Knowledge · Knowledge and learning · Kolonialisme · Letterkunde · Literary Criticism · Literature and history · Litterature et histoire · Postcolonialism in literature · Postmodernism (literature) · Postmodernisme · Postmodernisme (Littérature) · Pr6019.o9 z525976 1999 · Psychanalyse et litterature · Psychic trauma in literature · Psychoanalysis and literature · Psychological fiction, English · psychologyjoyce, james · Rezeption · Roman psychologique anglais · Trauma's (psychologie) · Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |