This book examines the relationship between Joyce's postmodern textuality and the traumatic history of colonialism in Ireland. Joyce's influence on Lacan and Derrida is viewed from a postcolonial perspective. This book brings Joyce's work into dialogue with thinkers such as Zizek, Adorno, Lyotard, as well as feminism and postcolonial theory.
Examines the relationship between Joyce, postmodernism, feminism and colonialism in Ireland.