The beast and the sovereign in ‘Circe’: human and animal rights in Joyce studies

My article will seek to interpret Bloom’s trials and tribulations in the ‘Circe’ episode through Derrida’s insight that ‘between sovereign, criminal beast, [there exists] a sort of obscure fascinating complicity’, as way considering consider what Joyce teaches us about interplay between human nonhuman rights across Ulysses (B&S, 17). An analysis these intertwined categories being reveal how emerges from Joyce’s earlier work, such ‘Ireland at Bar’ (1907), exploring sensational violence colonialism violates both animal bodies reflecting sense ‘that is already political’ 14-15, my italics). Moving beyond ‘Circe’, essay function case study which we might address value contemporary studies approaches politics Ulysses, often alongside sometimes contrast with tradition postcolonial modes thought, ahead its centenary.