Joyce by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

The Sexuo-Racial Matrix: Stephen’s Mother-Troubled Metaphysics

Stephen Dedalus is among the few in the book (Leopold and Molly being two others) who mock the idea that women’s promiscuity invites strangers who bring on the downfall of the “original” race. Bawdily parodying the Bible, pagan myth, Shakespeare, scholarship, and himself all at once, he pronounces early in the “Oxen of the Sun” section:

Bring a stranger within thy tower it will go hard but thou wilt have the secondbest bed. … Remember, Erin, thy generations and thy days of old, how thou settedst little by me and by my word and broughtedst in a stranger to my gates to commit fornication in my sight and to wax fat and kick like Jeshuram. Why hast thou done this abomination before me that thou didst spurn me for a merchant of jalaps and didst deny me to the Roman and the Indian of dark speech with whom thy daughters did lie luxuriously? Look forth, now, my people, upon the land of behest, even from Horeb and from Nebo and from Pisgah …. (U, 14.372–76)

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