A rereading of Joyce's essay on Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" in a postcolonial light. The idea of a Postcolonial Joyce came from some observations on Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe which Joyce wrote in Italian in an essay dated 1913. This essay , which was never been published during his lifetime, is to be found as an appendix to the Italian translation of Robinson Crusoe published by Oscar Mondadori. The English translation by Conor Deane (to which I will refer later for my quotations) appeared in the year 2000, along with the original Italian version, in a collection of Joyce’s occasional, critical and political writing edited by Kevin Barry. To understand the political implications of Joyce’s reflections on the Empire contained in this essay (reflections that are at the core of his possible Postcoloniality) it is worthwhile analysing the reasons for the rejection of the article by one of the leading Italian literary journals of the time, Il Marzocco, to whom it was submitted on 30 June 1913. Then, I analyze the essay in the light of the theories of E. W. Said, Robert Fraser, Moustapha Mourrachi and E. Glissant.
S. Albertazzi (2009). Joyce and Postcolonialism. ORLÉANS : Presses de l'Université d'Orléans.
Joyce and Postcolonialism
ALBERTAZZI, SILVIA
2009
Abstract
A rereading of Joyce's essay on Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" in a postcolonial light. The idea of a Postcolonial Joyce came from some observations on Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe which Joyce wrote in Italian in an essay dated 1913. This essay , which was never been published during his lifetime, is to be found as an appendix to the Italian translation of Robinson Crusoe published by Oscar Mondadori. The English translation by Conor Deane (to which I will refer later for my quotations) appeared in the year 2000, along with the original Italian version, in a collection of Joyce’s occasional, critical and political writing edited by Kevin Barry. To understand the political implications of Joyce’s reflections on the Empire contained in this essay (reflections that are at the core of his possible Postcoloniality) it is worthwhile analysing the reasons for the rejection of the article by one of the leading Italian literary journals of the time, Il Marzocco, to whom it was submitted on 30 June 1913. Then, I analyze the essay in the light of the theories of E. W. Said, Robert Fraser, Moustapha Mourrachi and E. Glissant.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.