The Language of Empire and the Empire of Language: Joyce and the Return of the Postcolonial Repressed

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2007
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O'Brien, Eugene
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O'Brien, E.(2007).'The Language of Empire and the Empire of Language: Joyce and the Return of the Postcolonial Repressed’, in,Flannery,E and Mitchell,A. (eds.), Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and History. Four Courts Press: Dublin, 160-171.
Abstract
This chapter examines the importance of language in the imperial project and the importance of language as a deconstruction of that project. It looks specifically at the language of James Joyce and argues that his work is profoundly deconstructive of much colonial discourse, specifically in his cultural emancipations of the proper name of Shakespeare from its colonialist associations.
Keywords
Joyce
Post-colonial
Language
Theory
Shakespeare
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eng
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Four Courts Press
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Used by permission © Four Courts Press, the full publication of Flannery,E and Mitchell,A. (eds.), Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and History. Four Courts Press: Dublin is available at http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=324
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http://hdl.handle.net/10395/321
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