Queer animals and agriculture in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man

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dc.contributor.authorMcIntyre, Caitlin Ailish
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeJoo, Hee-Jung Serenity (English, Film, and Theatre) Frank, Christopher (History)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorMedoro, Dana (English, Film, and Theatre)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-09T23:06:32Z
dc.date.available2014-09-09T23:06:32Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-09
dc.degree.disciplineEnglish, Film and Theatreen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts (M.A.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis will read James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a text that is fundamentally concerned with ecological issues, demonstrating awareness of the land beyond and outside of Dublin. Joyce frequently depicts the colonization of Ireland as centered on the control of land in the form of agriculture, which he brings into the political foreground of the novel's characters. I will argue further that this novel is critical of the violent nationalist rhetoric and insurrections of early 1900s Ireland, a movement which perpetuated the agricultural control of land. As an effective rebellion to this aporia, which Joseph Valente has termed “the metrocolonial double bind,” I will read the novel’s queer ecology, a non-violent resistance that moves beyond constricting categories of human/animal, urban/rural, and opens up the world for novel ways of living and being.en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2014en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/24011
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectModernismen_US
dc.subjectAgricultureen_US
dc.subjectJames Joyceen_US
dc.subjectEcocriticismen_US
dc.subjectIrelanden_US
dc.subjectPostcolonialismen_US
dc.titleQueer animals and agriculture in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young manen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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