Introduction
Abstract This chapter traces the uncanny, often emotionally intensive interactions between Irish and Jewish people from their nineteenth-century emigrations through the Dublin of James Joyce’s Ulysses and the writing of Henry Roth, Edward Dahlberg, and James T. Farrell. It delineates this relationsh...
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Oxford University PressNew York
2015
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190227951.003.0001 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/46130739/book_1581_section_141077925.ag.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract This chapter traces the uncanny, often emotionally intensive interactions between Irish and Jewish people from their nineteenth-century emigrations through the Dublin of James Joyce’s Ulysses and the writing of Henry Roth, Edward Dahlberg, and James T. Farrell. It delineates this relationship in a variety of popular cultural forms—Tin Pan Alley music, for example, popular Broadway dramas like Anne Nichols’s smash hit Abie’s Irish Rose (1921), and tenement fiction by Anzia Yezierska—and outlines key theoretical concepts to be employed throughout the study. These include ideas from performance theory, psychoanalysis, affect theory, and diaspora study. This chapter also develops the idea of a “circum–North Atlantic” cultural exchange so as to explain the foregrounding of Irish, Irish-American, Jewish-American, and in some cases European writers, intellectuals, and performers in the chapters that follow. |
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