James Joyce's Judaic Other

How does recent scholarship on ethnicity and race speak to the Jewish dimension of James Joyce’s writing? What light has Joyce himself already cast on the complex question of their relationship? This book poses these questions in terms of models of the other drawn from psychoanalytic and cultural studies and from Jewish cultural studies, arguing that in Joyce the emblematic figure of otherness is “the Jew.”

The work of Emmanuel Levinas, Sander Gilman, Gillian Rose, Homi Bhabha, among others...