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JOYCE, DERRIDA, LACAN, AND
THE TRAUMA OF HISTORY
In Joyce, Derrida, Lacan and the Trauma of History, Christine van
Boheemen-Saaf examines the relationship between Joyce’s post-
modern textuality and the traumatic history of colonialism in
Ireland. Joyce’s influence on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Der-
rida’s philosophy, Van Boheemen suggests, ought to be viewed
from a postcolonial perspective. She situates Joyce’s writing as a
practice of indirect ‘‘witnessing’’ to a history that remains unspeak-
able. The loss of a natural relationship to language in Joyce calls for
a new ethical dimension in the process of reading. The practice of
reading es an act of empathy to what the text cannot express
in words. In this way, she argues, Joyce’s work functions as a
material location for the inner voice of Irish cultural memory. This
book engages with a wide range of contemporary critical theory
and brings Joyce’s work into dialogue with thinkers such as Zˇizek,
Adorno, Lyotard, as well as feminism and postcolonial theory.
Christine van Boheemen-Saaf is Professor of Literature in English
at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of The Novel as
Family Romance (), Joyce, Modernity and its Mediation (), and
numerous essays on Joyce, Lacan, and literary theory.
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JOYCE, DERRIDA, LACAN,
AND THE TRAUMA OF
HISTORY
Reading, narrative and postcolonialism
CHRISTINE VAN BOHEEMEN-SAAF
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© Christine van Boheemen-Saaf 2004
First published in printed format 1999
ISBN 0-511-03325-7 eBook (Adobe Reader)
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