James Joyce Ulysses and the Construction of Jewish Identity

Representations of the Jew have long been a topic of interest in Joyce studies. Neil Davison argues that Joyce''s lifelong encounter with pseudo-scientific religious and political discourse about the Jew forms a unifying component of his career. He offers new biographical material and presents a detailed reading of Ulysses to show how Joyce confronts the controversy of race the psychology of internalized stereotype and the contradictions of fin-de-sicle anti-Semitism.