TY - JOUR
T1 - Irish-Israelism
T2 - Reconsidering the Politics of Race and Belonging in “Cyclops”
AU - Yazell, Bryan
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article re-considers the language of racial stereotype that is at the forefront of the “Cyclops” episode in Ulysses. Critics have long characterized the conflict between Leopold Bloom and the Citizen in terms of how each character defines the Irish nation. According to these readings, Bloom’s cosmopolitanism stands against the Citizen’s xenophobic nationalism. But the latter’s reliance on the language of racial stereotype—most evident in the anti-Semitic insults he hurls at Bloom—betrays the decidedly non-local basis of his rhetoric. Indeed, this essay reveals the extent to which the Citizen’s conceptualization of the Irish nation actually appropriates the language of Jewish nationalism, a discourse that circulated throughout Britain during the turn of the twentieth century.
AB - This article re-considers the language of racial stereotype that is at the forefront of the “Cyclops” episode in Ulysses. Critics have long characterized the conflict between Leopold Bloom and the Citizen in terms of how each character defines the Irish nation. According to these readings, Bloom’s cosmopolitanism stands against the Citizen’s xenophobic nationalism. But the latter’s reliance on the language of racial stereotype—most evident in the anti-Semitic insults he hurls at Bloom—betrays the decidedly non-local basis of his rhetoric. Indeed, this essay reveals the extent to which the Citizen’s conceptualization of the Irish nation actually appropriates the language of Jewish nationalism, a discourse that circulated throughout Britain during the turn of the twentieth century.
UR - https://jjq.utulsa.edu/category/issues/
U2 - 10.1353/jjq.2018.0008
DO - 10.1353/jjq.2018.0008
M3 - Journal article
VL - 53
SP - 269
EP - 285
JO - James Joyce Quarterly
JF - James Joyce Quarterly
SN - 0021-4183
IS - 3-4
ER -