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Author Platt, Len

Title Joyce, race and Finnegans wake / Len Platt
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 211 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1 Joyce, race and racism: introduction; CHAPTER 2 'No such race': Finnegans Wake and the Aryan myth; CHAPTER 3 Celt, Teuton and Aryan; CHAPTER 4 'Our darling breed': the Wake, social Darwinism and eugenics; CHAPTER 5 Atlanta-Arya: theosophy, race and the Wake; CHAPTER 6 'Hung Chung Egglyfella': staged race in Ulysses and the Wake; CHAPTER 7 'And the prankquean pulled a rosy one': filth, fascism and the family; CHAPTER 8 Race and reading: conclusion; Notes; Index
Summary Platt places Finnegans Wake in precise historical conditions and explores Joyce's engagement with European fascism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Finnegans wake.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Joyce, James, 1882-1941 fast
Joyce, James. swd
Finnegans wake (Joyce, James) fast
Finnegans wake. swd
Subject Racism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Political and social views
Racism in literature
Rassismus Motiv
Form Electronic book
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