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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Main Author: Watt, Stephen
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Oxford University PressNew York 2015
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North Atlantic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190227951.003.0001
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spelling croxfordunivpr:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190227951.003.0001 2024-06-09T07:48:09+00:00 Introduction Performing the Irish-Jewish Unconscious Watt, Stephen 2015 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 en eng Oxford University PressNew York "Something Dreadful and Grand" page 1-42 ISBN 0190227958 9780190227951 9780190227975 book-chapter 2015 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190227951.003.0001 2024-05-10T13:16:23Z 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. Book Part North Atlantic Oxford University Press
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description 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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