Title: James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity
First published: 1996
Description: Representations of "the Jew" have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies; in James Joyce, Ulysses, and the construction of Jewish identity Neil R. Davison argues that Joyce's lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific, religious, and political discourse about "the Jew" forms a unifying component of his career.

Davison offers new biographical material to support the claim that "the Jew" was a dynamic aspect of Joyce's imagination from youth to adulthood, and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses to show how Joyce draws on Christian folklore, Dreyfus Affair propaganda, Sinn Fein politics, and theories of Jewish sexual perversion and financial conspiracy.
Subjects: Antisemitism, Biography, Characters, History, Irish Novelists, Jews, Jews in literature, Leopold Bloom (Fictitious character), Novelists, Irish, Religion, Stereotype (Psychology) in literature, Joyce, james, 1882-1941, Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature, Juifs dans la littérature, Antisémitisme, Histoire, Stéréotypes dans la littérature, Romanciers irlandais, Biographies, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Ulysses (Joyce, James)
People: James Joyce (1882-1941)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR6019.O9 U6363 1996