{"id":679,"date":"2016-12-05T22:13:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T22:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/?p=679"},"modified":"2016-12-05T22:13:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T22:13:52","slug":"hyperannotation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/uncategorized\/hyperannotation-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperannotation 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nielson, David R. “\u2019Cyclops,\u2019 Sinn F\u00e9in, and \u2018The Jew\u2019: An Historical Reconsideration.” Journal of Modern Literature<\/em> 19.2 (1995): 245-57. JSTOR<\/em>. Web. 29 Nov. 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Religion<\/p>\n

Union and Division<\/p>\n

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Link to citation page: https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3831591?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents<\/a><\/p>\n

Link to full text: https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/pdf\/3831591.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nielson\u2019s article inspects the various formulations of Irish nationalism and James Joyce\u2019s personal experiences with both Irish republicanism and anti-Jewish European fervor in order to reinterpret the political motivations of the \u201cCyclops\u201d episode and reassess its historical origins. Nielson claims that the scholarship regarding \u201cCyclops\u201d has long emphasized the outward tension of Irish nationalism and the Orientalist tendencies of the Irish population, particularly in regards to Bloom\u2019s Jewish lineage, but that academics have largely neglected to investigate deeper into \u201cJoyce’s attitude toward either Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein, or Michael Cusack, the main force behind the Gaelic Athletic Association\u201d (245). Nielson\u2019s analysis posits that a more nuanced understanding of the conflict between Irish nationalism and racialized others in \u201cCyclops\u201d can be obtained if one is more aware of Joyce\u2019s own political opinion and his relationship with Ireland\u2019s national movement.<\/p>\n

Despite Joyce\u2019s self-imposed exile from Dublin, Nielson claims that the author still came into contact with Irish, anti-Jewish sentiment, through the disseminated political ideals of the prominent nationalist Arthur Griffith. Nielson offers many different examples of how the nationalism of Ireland influenced Joyce\u2019s presentation of \u201cCyclops\u201d and his characterization of Leopold Bloom. An especially glaring criticism of Bloom is uttered by the citizen who deems him \u201cthe bloody freemason\u201d (U<\/em>12.300). This easily looked over attack is actually an important historical allusion that ties \u201cCyclops\u201d into the political reality of early 20th<\/sup> Century Irish nationalism, \u201cSince he perceives Bloom unequivocally as a Jew, the insult obviously refers to the kind of Jewish world-conspiracy rhetoric which Griffith invoked in his newspaper\u201d (251). Freemasonry was often equated with Judaism as an underlying sociopolitical force intent on eroding the Irish way of life.<\/p>\n

Not only does Nielson\u2019s writing astutely explain the origins of Bloom\u2019s prejudiced characterization, it also offers commentary on the contemptible bigotry of Irish Republicanism, tracing the ideologies it stemmed from. Not only is \u201cCyclops\u201d influenced by the popular nationalist ideals of the era, but also by older, similarly chauvinistic, Catholic scrutiny, \u201cthe clergy itself in Ireland also disseminated similar economic myths about British and Irish Jews\u201d (Nielson 252). The nativistic and intolerant nationalism of Griffith, his peers, and the Irish-Catholic Church manifests in \u201cCyclops\u201d through exclusionary barbs and aggression, \u201cI\u2019ll brain the bloody jewman\u201d (U12.1811-1812). According to Nielson, the violent behavior of the citizen is a visible distillation of all these anti-foreign ideologies, \u201cthe character represents the inane convolutions of bigotry and desperate republicanism\u201d (253).<\/p>\n

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Citations and Related Sources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Cheyette, Bryan. “”‘Jewgreek Is Greekjew’: The Disturbing Ambivalence of Joyce’s Semitic Discourse in Ulysses.” Joyce Studies Annual<\/em> 3 (1992): 43. JSTOR<\/em>. Web. 5 Dec. 2016<\/p>\n

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Holmes, Colin. Anti-semitism in British Society, 1876-1939<\/em>. Holmes & Meier, 1979. Print.<\/p>\n

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Larkin, Emmet J. The Consolidation of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1860-1870<\/em>. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1987. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nielson, David R. “\u2019Cyclops,\u2019 Sinn F\u00e9in, and \u2018The Jew\u2019: An Historical Reconsideration.” Journal of Modern Literature 19.2 (1995): 245-57. JSTOR. Web. 29 Nov. 2016. Related topics: \u00a0   Religion Union and Division   Link to citation page: https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3831591?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Link to full text: https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/pdf\/3831591.pdf   Nielson\u2019s article inspects the various formulations of Irish nationalism and James […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}