1. Upright man/fallen woman: identification and desire in James Joyce's 'A Painful Case'
- Author
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Doherty, Gerald
- Subjects
A Painful Case (Book) -- Criticism and interpretation ,Black Skin, White Masks (Nonfiction work) -- Criticism and interpretation -- Authorship ,Colonialism -- Psychological aspects ,African Americans -- Psychological aspects ,Fashion and beauty ,Criticism and interpretation ,Psychological aspects ,Authorship - Abstract
This interpretation of James Joyce's 'A Painful Case' weaves together three disparate strands to demonstrate how intimately they mesh with each other: a tropological strand, which structures the plot around three major metaphorical matrices (ascent/descent/alimentation): a psychoanalytical one, which uncovers the maimed psychical dispositions that underwrite each of these matrices: and a colonial one, which reveals the larger socio-political forces that generate these maiming-effects., In her stimulating reading of Frantz Fanon's anti-colonialist book, Black Skin, White Masks (1952), Diana Fuss analyses the strategies through which colonialism pathologizes the colonized subject. By excluding that subject [...]
- Published
- 2001