Supply Chains, Labor Poverty and the Non-Human Animal of Joyce's Ulysses by Adam Putz (original) (raw)

Abstract

New modes of inquiry emerged in the last decade as the postcolonial paradigm, which largely defined Irish Studies in the 1990s, came under scrutiny. In particular, women's studies, ecocriticism, and queer theory have come to provide complementary representations of labour and poverty in Ulysses which disintegrate category distinctions like human and nonhuman. This argument does not deny the influence of the metropolis, but it does suggest that the interaction with nonhuman others has just as great an impact on an urban novel like Ulysses as the ideologies of an urban intelligentsia. His conclusion is that the organs of the Gilbert schema, posited as symbolic of particular episodes in the novel, represent a union of human with nonhuman animal. To support this conclusion, he draws from his research on the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, the body responsible for running Dublin Zoo in the Phoenix Park since 1831.

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