Ep. 140 - Up the Boers!
Was Leopold Bloom ever totally radical?
Anti Boer War protesters at the gates of Trinity College, Le Petit Journal
Topics in this episode include Bloom’s memory of a protest, Bloom’s view of the police, the significance of soup imagery, the origins of the Boer War, Irish Nationalist opposition to the Boer War, Joseph Chamberlain, Christiaan de Wet, the irony of Irish Nationalist support for the Boer cause, a French depiction of the protests in Dublin, the class politics of political protest, Sean O’Casey’s daring showdown with a mounter police officer, profiting from the colonization of Africa, poetry as propaganda, a Parnell conspiracy theory, Bloom’s failed attempts to seem more patriotic than he is, the wrong Gough in the park, Bloom’s own profiteering, and the fate of Percy Apjohn.
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Joseph Chamberlain
Adams, R. M. (1962). Surface and Symbol: The Consistency of James Joyce’s Ulysses. New York: Oxford University Press.
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