James Joyce and the Politics of Desire

<p>This title first published in 1990 offers a feminist and psychoanalytic reassessment of the Joycean canon in the wake of Freud Lacan and Kristeva. The author centres her discussion of <i>Ulysses Dubliners A Portrait of the Artist Finnegans Wake </i>and <i>Exiles</i> around questions of desire and language and the politics of sexual difference. </p><p>Suzette Henke’s radical re-vision of Joyce’s work is a striking example of the crucial role feminist theory can play in contemporary evaluation of canonical texts. As such it will be welcomed by feminists and students of literature alike. </p>