Joyce, Derrida, Lacan, and the trauma of history : reading, narrative and postcolonialism / Christine van Boheemen-Saaf

Author(s): Boheemen, Christine van
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Subjects: Psychoanalysis and literature--Ireland--History--20th century
Psychological fiction, English--Irish authors--History and criticism
Literature and history--Ireland--History--20th century
Postmodernism (Literature)--Ireland
Psychic trauma in literature
Decolonization in literature
Colonies in literature
Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Knowledge--History
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981--Contributions in criticism
Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Knowledge--Psychology
Derrida, Jacques--Contributions in criticism
Formats: Print
Material Type: Books
Language: English
Audience: Unspecified
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
LC Classification: P, PR
Table of Contents: Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1. The stolen birthright: the mimesis of original loss 1
2. Representation in a postcolonial symbolic 31
The (in)divisibility of the letter 34
The transference of the text 50
The semiotic status of the text 69
3. The language of the outlaw 74
Acting out the stereotype 82
The semiotics of narrative 86
The presence of the void 94
High modernism/poststructuralism, and the difference of Joyce 98
Intentionality 102
Jouissance/the subject who shows 105
The somatization of the text 111
Postcolonial agency 118
4. The primitive scene of representation: writing gender 120
The supplement of origin 131
The confessing vagina and the dark continent of femininity 135
The threat of an ending 140
Weaving the astral body 143
Fetishized writing: pen is champ 147
5. Materiality in Derrida, Lacan, and Joyce's embodied text 155
The letter in Lacan 167
Derrida's immaterial letter 176
Derrida and filiation 181
The materiality of the mother in the void of religion 184
Conclusion: Joyce's anamorphic mirror 194
Bibliography 211
Index 224
Notes: LCCN: 98032270
ISBN: 052166036X
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index
Contents: The stolen birthright: the mimesis of original loss -- Representation in a postcolonial symbolic -- The language of the outlaw -- The primitive scene of representation: writing gender -- Materiality in Derrida, Lacan, and Joyce's embodied text
Physical Description: x, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
OCLC Number: 40398023
ISBN/ISSN: 052166036X

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