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• Title: John Brannigan, Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture (Book Review)
• Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Reference,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 337 KB

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John Brannigan, Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. ix + 246 pages. GBP 65.00 John Brannigan's new monograph, Race in Modern Irish Literature and Culture, examines and reframes the anxiety of otherness that so permeates Ireland in the twentieth century. Brannigan at once charts a complicated and nuanced vision of race while questioning its received boundaries and binaries. He endeavours to understand what race means for a society and nation whose modern inception in 1922 relies on a collective vision of cultural and racial homogeneity. What Brannigan achieves in this most welcome work is a revelation not only of the intricate valuations of identity in the modern Irish nation, but also the degree to which those very ideals of cultural identity rest upon an enduring dream of manufactured national distinction. Brannigan's work begins with an examination of the discourse surrounding the Paris publication of James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922. While the import of the date and location of that publication has received much critical attention, Brannigan's argument takes a highly original view. Brannigan asserts not simply why Ireland in the early twentieth century was important for Joyce but, more strikingly and in a sophisticated reversal, why Joyce's Ulysses is important for Ireland. While Brannigan's readers will surely be aware that the publication of Ulysses coincides with the founding of the Irish Free State, what may surprise readers is the representative intersection between the Irish Race Congress in Paris and the appearance of Joyce's novel. Brannigan writes, 'much of the historicist work on Ulysses ... focuses on what the novel tells us about its setting, in 1904, rather than how the novel connects with the events and concerns of 1922' (p.19). The 'symbolic significance' of the intersection between the Paris Irish Race Congress and the publication of Ulysses as well as the emergence of the Irish Free State provide an impressive invocation to the premises upon which the modern Irish state is founded. The lack of attention that 1922 Ireland has received as it relates to the publication of Ulysses is striking. While Joyce went continental in his wanderings from Trieste to Paris after he departed from his home island as he attempted to capture 16 June 1904 in his 'epic of two races', what Brannigan shows us is that Joyce was also unavoidably engaging the anxieties and tensions of Ireland's emerging nation-state throughout his creation and publication process (p.19). In short, Joyce designed the textual Dublin of 1904 in an expressionistic work refracting the shattered images of Ireland in 1922.

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