Abstract:

As part of its sustained examination of the ways in which late-colonial modernity and its highly specific arrangements of capital and power structured life in the Ireland of his time, Ulysses contemplates the condition of the animal, and especially the commodified, consumable animal in this nexus of the delayed or uneven distribution of capital in the empire-colony relationship. My essay traces Joyce’s ethical and economic engagement with animal capital from the point of view of cultural and agricultural practices that were reconstituting the relation between rural and urban Ireland, as well as Ireland and imperial England, at the time that Joyce is writing. Drawing on both canonical and very new work in the emerging field of critical animal studies, this study charts the ways in which social relationships within the colony come to be dominated by the demands of the market, and how the animal is perpetually caught up in these reconfigured arrangements of colonial consumption, power, and trade.

摘要：

在持续研究后殖民时代的现代性及其高度特定的资本和权力安排在他那个时代的爱尔兰中构成生活的方式的一部分时，尤利西斯（Ulysses）在帝国与殖民地关系中资本延迟或不均匀分配的这种联系中，我们考虑了动物的状况，尤其是经过改良的可食用动物的状况。我的文章从乔伊斯写作之时的文化和农业实践的角度追溯了乔伊斯与动物资本的伦理和经济互动关系，这些文化和农业实践正在重新建构爱尔兰城乡之间以及爱尔兰与帝国主义英格兰之间的关系。这项研究利用了在关键动物研究这一新兴领域中的规范研究和非常新颖的研究成果，绘制了如何通过市场需求来控制殖民地内的社会关系的方式，以及如何将动物永久地捕获在这些领域中。重新配置了殖民消费，权力和贸易的安排。