List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on references to Joyce's works; Introduction Marjorie Howes and Derek Attridge; 1. Dead ends: Joyce's finest moments Seamus Deane; 2. Disappearing Dublin: Ulysees, postcoloniality and the politics of space Enda Duffy; 3. 'Goodbye Ireland I'm going to Gort': geography, scale and narrating the nation Majorie Howes; 4. State of the art: Joyce and postcolonialism Emer Nolan; 5. 'Neither fish nor flesh'; or how 'Cyclops' stages the double-bind of Irish manhood Joseph Valente; 6. Counterparts: Dubliners, masculinity and temperance nationalism David Lloyd; 7. 'Have you no homes to go to?': Joyce and the politics of paralysis Luke Gibbons; 8. Don't cry for me, Argentina: 'Eveline' and the seductions of emigration propaganda Katherine Mullin; 9. 'Kilt by kelt shell kithagain with kinagain': Joyce and Scotland Willy Maley; 10. Phoenician genealogies and oriental geographies: Joyce, language and race Elizabeth Butler Cullingford; 11. Authenticity and identity: catching the Irish spirit Vincent J. Cheng; Index.

Landmark collection of essays examining Joyce's relationship with Irish colonialism and nationalism.