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Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History : Reading, Narrative, and Postcolonialism
Joyce Derrida Lacan and the Trauma of History Reading Narrative and Postcolonialism Author:Christine van Boheemen Christine van Boheemen examines the relationship between Joyce's postmodern textuality and the traumatic history of colonialism in Ireland. Joyce's influence on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Derrida's philosophy, Van Boheemen suggests, ought to be viewed from a postcolonial perspective. Joyce's writing bears witness to a history that remains unspe... more »akable, functioning as a material location for the inner voice of Irish cultural memory. This book engages with a wide range of contemporary critical theory and brings Joyce's work into dialogue with thinkers such as Zizek, Adorno, Lyotard, as well as feminism and postcolonial theory.« less