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Overview
“James Joyce’s Judaic Other constitutes a major contribution to Joyce scholarship.”—Shofar
“[An] important contribution to Joyce studies . . . .a detailed . . . .account of the Jewish background to Ulysses, one that will challenge readers to pursue on their own the important connections with other contexts that she has left unexplored.”—Religion and the Arts
Synopsis
How does recent scholarship on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension of James Joyce’s writing? What light has Joyce himself cast on the complex question of their relationship? This book poses these questions in terms of models of the other drawn from psychoanalytic and cultural studies and from Jewish cultural studies.
Booknews
Drawing on recent scholarship in ethnicity and race, psychoanalysis, Jewish cultural studies, and Joyce's own writing, Reizbaum (English, Bowdoin College and Tel Aviv U.) explores the Irish writer's construction of Jewishness. She finds that for him the emblematic figure of otherness is The Jew. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Editorials
From the Publisher
“[An] important contribution to Joyce studies . . . .a detailed . . . .account of the Jewish background to Ulysses, one that will challenge readers to pursue on their own the important connections with other contexts that she has left unexplored.”—Religion and the Arts