"Identities in the writer complexus": Joyce, Europe and Irish identities (Pre-published version)

Abstract

This chapter examines forms of negative identity in terms of two intersecting verbal axes: Joyce‟s own term, gnomon and Jacques Derrida‟s term hauntology. Both terms gesture towards forms of negative identity which are the very antithesis of foundational or fundamental identity and I will trace this argument through some of Joyce‟s writings.