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 |
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| 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 |