The New Joyce Studies ed. by Catherine Flynn (review)

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Ellen Carol Jones
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiii + 298 pp. $99.99 cloth. <p>Conjoining historical and political concerns with issues such as queerness, race, and transnational literary relations, or exploring issues of composition and publication, copyright law, translation, and the history of modernist criticism, the essays of <em>The New Joyce Studies</em> edited by Catherine Flynn aim to \"refract Joyce's texts through new critical lenses and in doing so produce new kinds of analytical apparatuses\" (210).</p> <p>As the \"master of urban deterritorialization,\" Joyce can serve African writers and thinkers as a model for the \"plot of inertia\"—an alternative to the heroic plots that structure much of the African literary tradition—of (post)colonial urban modernity, Ato Quayson suggests in \"The Transcripts of (Post)Colonial Modernity in <em>Ulysses</em> and Accra\" (21). Plots of inertia, defined by the dissociative \"slow time\" of indefinite actions, allow for the linguistic deformations that Quayson explores in the fictional 1904 Dublin and the contemporary Accra, Ghana. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of minor writing—the linguistic deformation of a dominant language from within, a minority's revolutionary deterritorialization of hegemonic discourse—necessarily enjoins a process of becoming for all minorities or denigrated entities within a society.<sup>1</sup> Everything in minor writing is political, Deleuze and Guattari claim; within the individual story vibrates an entire political history, and everything takes on a collective value: in the revolutionary enunciation of minor writing, the artist can express \"another possible community\" and forge the means for \"another consciousness and another sensibility\" (17). The dialectical interplay between the oscillations of the mind and the conversion of external stimuli into labyrinths of signification shape the deterritorialization of both Joyce's novel and the multilingual city of Accra, where the written word is omnipresent in public places and especially in the inscriptions on vehicles, coalescing the repertoires of both orality and literacy.</p> <p>In \"Joyce and Race in the Twenty-First Century,\" Malcolm Sen explores Joyce's representation of bodies of color in the context of empire, questioning how the \"reshaping of cultural and personal definitions of what it means to be Irish inform our reading of race in Joyce's texts,\" and asking how these texts also inform our understanding of \"the present and its multiple sociopolitical and ecological <strong>[End Page 161]</strong> challenges within which race operates as a key determinant\" (36-37). 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Reviewed by:

  • The New Joyce Studies ed. by Catherine Flynn
  • Ellen Carol Jones (bio)
THE NEW JOYCE STUDIES, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiii + 298 pp. $99.99 cloth.

Conjoining historical and political concerns with issues such as queerness, race, and transnational literary relations, or exploring issues of composition and publication, copyright law, translation, and the history of modernist criticism, the essays of The New Joyce Studies edited by Catherine Flynn aim to "refract Joyce's texts through new critical lenses and in doing so produce new kinds of analytical apparatuses" (210).

As the "master of urban deterritorialization," Joyce can serve African writers and thinkers as a model for the "plot of inertia"—an alternative to the heroic plots that structure much of the African literary tradition—of (post)colonial urban modernity, Ato Quayson suggests in "The Transcripts of (Post)Colonial Modernity in Ulysses and Accra" (21). Plots of inertia, defined by the dissociative "slow time" of indefinite actions, allow for the linguistic deformations that Quayson explores in the fictional 1904 Dublin and the contemporary Accra, Ghana. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of minor writing—the linguistic deformation of a dominant language from within, a minority's revolutionary deterritorialization of hegemonic discourse—necessarily enjoins a process of becoming for all minorities or denigrated entities within a society.1 Everything in minor writing is political, Deleuze and Guattari claim; within the individual story vibrates an entire political history, and everything takes on a collective value: in the revolutionary enunciation of minor writing, the artist can express "another possible community" and forge the means for "another consciousness and another sensibility" (17). The dialectical interplay between the oscillations of the mind and the conversion of external stimuli into labyrinths of signification shape the deterritorialization of both Joyce's novel and the multilingual city of Accra, where the written word is omnipresent in public places and especially in the inscriptions on vehicles, coalescing the repertoires of both orality and literacy.

In "Joyce and Race in the Twenty-First Century," Malcolm Sen explores Joyce's representation of bodies of color in the context of empire, questioning how the "reshaping of cultural and personal definitions of what it means to be Irish inform our reading of race in Joyce's texts," and asking how these texts also inform our understanding of "the present and its multiple sociopolitical and ecological [End Page 161] challenges within which race operates as a key determinant" (36-37). At what point "do Joycean ironies fail to humanize and modernize subjects of color within empire?" (42). Can the postcolonial technique of resistant mimicry and mockery "fall short of its critical trajectory so that the repetition of stereotypes only rehearses rather than effectively undermines epistemic violence?" (42). Joyce's emphasis on cultural hybridity; his portrayal of the plight of a citizen considered, as a Jew, to be an outsider; and his advocacy of intercultural contact and hospitality toward "others" all offer "the potential of welcoming the stranger" (44, 45). For Sen, "Joyce appears at his anti-colonial best when he enmeshes his landscapes of otherness within the networks of empire and its globalizing impetus" (46).

In "Dubliners and French Naturalism," Flynn traces the ways Joyce radicalizes French naturalism's conundrum of how to move from observation to insight, intensifying the moral ambiguities of his stories, luring his reader to interpret what resists interpretation. Dubliners, she points out, is grounded in "the deeper ontological principles of naturalism—the eschewal of spiritual truths, conventional ideals, and religious faith and the close examination of the deforming effects of heredity, environment, and institutions—while rendering explicit the interpretive problems raised by those principles" (58-59). By tempting readers "to engage in a simoniacal reaching for the spiritual," for higher meaning, Dubliners teaches readers instead "to make a dialectical move from a materialistic environment, and the irrational idealism that reacts to it, to a way of thinking that rationally addresses the conditions of the contemporary world" (59).

Latin Americans understood Joyce, in counter-distinction to the icon of apolitical modernist aestheticism promulgated by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, as "a marginal writer reaching a periphery from another periphery," a writer...

Catherine Flynn 编著的《新乔伊斯研究》(评论)
以下是内容的简要摘录,以代替摘要:评论者 The New Joyce Studies ed. by Catherine Flynn Ellen Carol Jones (bio) 《新乔伊斯研究》,凯瑟琳-弗林编辑。剑桥:剑桥大学出版社,2022 年。xiii + 298 pp.99.99 美元布版。凯瑟琳-弗林主编的《新乔伊斯研究》中的文章将历史和政治问题与同性恋、种族和跨国文学关系等问题结合在一起,或探讨创作和出版、版权法、翻译和现代主义批评史等问题,旨在 "通过新的批评视角折射乔伊斯的文本,从而产生新型的分析工具"(210)。作为 "城市非地域化的大师",乔伊斯可以为非洲作家和思想家提供 "惯性情节 "的范本--一种替代(后)殖民城市现代性的英雄情节的范本。惰性情节由不确定行动的分离性 "慢时间 "定义,使得奎森在虚构的 1904 年都柏林和当代加纳阿克拉探索的语言变形成为可能。吉尔-德勒兹(Gilles Deleuze)和费利克斯-瓜塔里(Félix Guattari)的 "小众写作 "概念--从内部对主流语言的语言变形,少数群体对霸权话语的革命性 "去领土化"--必然要求社会中的所有少数群体或被诋毁的实体都有一个 "成为 "的过程。德勒兹和瓜塔里声称,小众写作中的一切都是政治性的;在个体故事中,整个政治历史都在振动,一切都具有集体价值:在小众写作的革命性阐释中,艺术家可以表达 "另一种可能的社群",并为 "另一种意识和另一种感性"(17)创造条件。心灵的振荡与外部刺激转化为符号迷宫之间的辩证互动,塑造了乔伊斯小说和阿克拉这座多语种城市的去领土化,在这座城市里,文字在公共场所,尤其是车辆上的铭文中无处不在,凝聚了口语和识字的双重剧目。在《21 世纪的乔伊斯与种族》中,马尔科姆-森(Malcolm Sen)探讨了乔伊斯在帝国背景下对有色人种的表现,质疑 "对爱尔兰人的文化和个人定义的重塑如何影响我们对乔伊斯文本中种族的解读",并询问这些文本如何影响我们对 "当下及其多重社会政治和生态[第161页完]挑战的理解,而种族是其中的关键决定因素"(36-37)。乔伊斯式的讽刺在什么时候 "无法使帝国中的有色人种人性化和现代化?(42).后殖民主义的抵制性模仿和嘲弄技巧是否 "没有达到其批判性的轨迹,以至于陈规定型观念的重复只是预演而不是有效地破坏认识论暴力?(42).乔伊斯对文化混杂性的强调;他对作为犹太人被视为局外人的公民的困境的描写;以及他对跨文化接触和好客 "他人 "的倡导,都提供了 "欢迎陌生人的可能性"(44, 45)。在森看来,"当乔伊斯将他的他者景观融入帝国网络及其全球化推动力中时,他的反殖民主义表现得淋漓尽致"(46)。在《都柏林人与法国自然主义》一文中,弗林追溯了乔伊斯如何将法国自然主义的难题--如何从观察到洞察--激进化,强化其故事的道德模糊性,引诱读者去解读抗拒解读的东西。她指出,《都柏林人》立足于 "自然主义更深层次的本体论原则--摒弃精神真理、传统理想和宗教信仰,密切审视遗传、环境和制度的畸形影响--同时明确提出这些原则所引发的解释问题"(58-59)。都柏林人》引诱读者 "以一种类似的方式追求精神",追求更高的意义,从而教导读者 "从唯物主义的环境以及对其做出反应的非理性唯心主义,辩证地转向一种理性地解决当代世界状况的思维方式"(59)。与艾略特(T. S. Eliot)和庞德(Ezra Pound)所宣扬的非政治化现代主义唯美主义偶像截然不同,拉美人将乔伊斯理解为 "一位从另一个边缘抵达边缘的边缘作家",一位......
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1963 at the University of Tulsa by Thomas F. Staley, the James Joyce Quarterly has been the flagship journal of international Joyce studies ever since. In each issue, the JJQ brings together a wide array of critical and theoretical work focusing on the life, writing, and reception of James Joyce. We encourage submissions of all types, welcoming archival, historical, biographical, and critical research. Each issue of the JJQ provides a selection of peer-reviewed essays representing the very best in contemporary Joyce scholarship. In addition, the journal publishes notes, reviews, letters, a comprehensive checklist of recent Joyce-related publications, and the editor"s "Raising the Wind" comments.
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