{"title":"\"Allspace in a Notshall\": Examining Bygmester HCE's Cosmopolitan City-Building in \"Haveth Childers Everywhere\"","authors":"Shinjini Chattopadhyay","doi":"10.1353/jjq.2022.0008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Space and place in Finnegans Wake are often studied within a universalist framework where specific geographical locations get little emphasis and the idea of ever-expansive and international space becomes predominant. Analyzing HCE's city-building in \"Haveth Childers Everywhere\" (FW 536.28-554.10) presents the opportunity of bridging the longstanding gap in Joyce studies between localism and internationalism. In this essay, I argue that, in \"Haveth Childers Everywhere,\" HCE essentially builds a cosmopolitan city by carefully curating local details from a wide range of cities all across the world. Applying the lens of cosmopolitanism and departing from the internationalist and universalist framework enable us to analyze how HCE's city-building preserves the cultural particularity of local details and acknowledges their cultural difference without subsuming them in a homogenizing grid. The critical cosmopolitanism of HCE's city rejects the hegemony of colonialism and exclusionary nationalism and explores the socio-cultural complexities of local details without invoking binaries of parochial/global, center/periphery, or superior/inferior. Analyzing the construction of HCE's city facilitates the understanding of how he creates the ideal receptacle for the still nascent national and cultural identity of the Wakean consciousness.","PeriodicalId":42413,"journal":{"name":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","volume":"59 1","pages":"485 - 503"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JAMES JOYCE QUARTERLY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2022.0008","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Space and place in Finnegans Wake are often studied within a universalist framework where specific geographical locations get little emphasis and the idea of ever-expansive and international space becomes predominant. Analyzing HCE's city-building in "Haveth Childers Everywhere" (FW 536.28-554.10) presents the opportunity of bridging the longstanding gap in Joyce studies between localism and internationalism. In this essay, I argue that, in "Haveth Childers Everywhere," HCE essentially builds a cosmopolitan city by carefully curating local details from a wide range of cities all across the world. Applying the lens of cosmopolitanism and departing from the internationalist and universalist framework enable us to analyze how HCE's city-building preserves the cultural particularity of local details and acknowledges their cultural difference without subsuming them in a homogenizing grid. The critical cosmopolitanism of HCE's city rejects the hegemony of colonialism and exclusionary nationalism and explores the socio-cultural complexities of local details without invoking binaries of parochial/global, center/periphery, or superior/inferior. Analyzing the construction of HCE's city facilitates the understanding of how he creates the ideal receptacle for the still nascent national and cultural identity of the Wakean consciousness.
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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.