Suzette A. Henke: James Joyce and the politics of desire
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Titel: James Joyce and the politics of desire, 1990
Uitgever: Routledge
ISBN-10: 0-415-01057-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-01057-3
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How do the innovations of Joyce's modernist writing relate to recent French feminist and psychoanalytical theories? James Joyce and the Politics of Desire offers the first feminist/ psychoanalytic reassessment of the Joycean canon in the wake of Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva. Suzette Henke's discussion of Ulysses, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist, Finnegans Wake, and Exiles centers around issues of desire and language and the politics of sexual difference, raising the question of how far Joyce's writings undermine the linguistic certainties which prop up western patriarchal culture.
' ... a strong contribution to the field. It offers many new interpretations that will inspire other scholars and interest serious students, particularly those who are following recent theory.' Bonnie Kime Scott, University of Delaware.
Suzette Henke is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
and first
I put
my arms
around
him
yes and
drew him
down
to me
so he could
feel
my breasts
all perfume
yes
and his heart
was going
like
mad
and yes
I said
yes
I will
Yes.
