"MAY I TRESPASS ON YOUR VALUABLE SPACE?": "ULYSSES" ON THE COAST

This essay moves beyond questions of national identity and symbolic national territory in Ulysses by shifting the focus to the novel's coastal setting. It argues that Joyce strategically employs this setting to expose the economic and political mechanisms that have conspired to postpone Ireland...

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Published in:Modern fiction studies 2011-12, Vol.57 (4), p.627-649
Main Author: Pearson, Nels C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British & Irish literature
Colonies & territories
Cosmopolitanism
Emigration
Fanon, Frantz (1925-1961)
Harbors
Irish culture
Irish history
Irish literature
Irish nationalism
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Modernist art
Paradoxes
Piers
Ports
Postcolonialism
Sovereignty
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Summary:This essay moves beyond questions of national identity and symbolic national territory in Ulysses by shifting the focus to the novel's coastal setting. It argues that Joyce strategically employs this setting to expose the economic and political mechanisms that have conspired to postpone Ireland's reciprocal engagement in the European interstate system, resulting, culturally, in a perpetual disruption of what Frantz Fanon called "international consciousness." This essay situates these observations in the context of recent critical arguments about the ways in which the opposing discourses of nationalism and cosmopolitanism obscure the pragmatic challenges of sustainable internationalism and egalitarian statehood in the developing world.
ISSN:0026-7724
1080-658X
1080-658X
DOI:10.1353/mfs.2011.0078