Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern Literature
Angaben zur Quelle:
19,2 (1995) 245-257
Keywords:
Joyce, James,
Abstract:
Discusses the "Cyclops" episode in James Joyce's "Ulysses", which portrays Bloom's confrontation with the Citizen's antisemitism. Two central political currents of Ireland in 1904 are represented in the Citizen's vulgar Sinn Feinism and his compound of religious and economic anti-Jewishness. Joyce's views on politics and about Sinn Fein are complex and often ambivalent. He harbored nationalist pride, but abhorred racism. Describes the antisemitic views of Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein, as expressed in his journal "The United Irishman", Joyce's opposition to these views and to the antisemitism pervading Europe in the late 19th-early 20th centuries, and their influence on Joyce's depiction of the Jew and the antisemite in "Ulysses" (written in 1906). Focuses, also, on the religious aspects of racial antisemitism - Joyce had seized upon a connection between racism, the chauvinistic ends of Sinn Feinism, and the resurgence of a religious hatred at the heart of much of modern European ideology.
Note:
On James Joyce's "Ulysses".
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