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Abstract:From an overt engagement with orientalism in "Araby" to the subtle discourse of blackness in "The Dead," Joyce's short-story collection, Dubliners, offers readers a multidimensional perspective on the overlapping discourses of race, class, and colonialism that defined Irishness in early-twentieth-century Dublin. This essay considers Joyce's canonical collection through the lens of a post-Celtic-Tiger understanding of race, where difference is an unavoidable and necessary component in discussions of contemporary Irish identity. Just as William Shakespeare's fools ironically invoke elemental words of wisdom, one character's drunken questions about American blackness at the dinner table in "The Dead" and the unspoken resistance to racial diversity in the paralytic lifestyles of Joyce's other characters point us to one of many prophetic moments in Joyce's work: a diagnosis of an Ireland that cannot move forward into modernity without recognizing the multiplicity of cultural voices that overtly challenge nationalist calls for a unified declaration of Irish identity.
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.