This thesis explores Joyce`s critique of colonial domination and seeks for the ways to get out of this miserable condition, focusing on the characteristics of "a new womanly man", Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. The British defined the Irish as a feminine race and applied the rules and regulations which were commonly imposed on them as a norm in the relationship between man and woman in a patriarchal society. They did so because this binarism is the basic principle of imperialism as well as the patriarchal value system. So the terms domination and suppression have been transformed from `the British empire` and `the colonial Ireland` in their struggle with the union to `male` and `female` without changing the issues of marginality. But the problem is that this binary thought was internalized by the colonized Irish themselves. They equated the feminine with something wrong, negative and powerless, trying to impute historical wrongdoing to women and to exonerate themselves from colonial oppression. women were thus doubly colonized in Ireland by the Irish males as well as by the British empire. But Joyce refutes this reductionism by exposing and subverting the fictitiousness of the colonial and patriarchal discourse. Joyce`s writing acknowledges the current potency and miserable legacy of binary thinking in both imperialism and patriarchy, and seeks for the ways of breaching the oppositional logic by which we are all constrained. Joyce systematically subverts the code of imperial sexuality, which contributes to the justification of imperialism and suggests alternative sexual politics for the colonized people. He chooses Bloom, a Jew with feminine characteristic as one of the main characters in his works to overcome this fictitious binary thinking of the empire. Unlike most Irishmen as illustrated in the Citizen in "Cyclops", who impute all the troubles of their country to the feminine weakness and try to fight against the British by recovering their masculinity, Bloom, with his hybrid identity and free of this dichotomized thinking, doesn`t solely blame Molly for her adultery with Boylan. In short, he recognizes his responsibility for what it is and tries to improve the present condition. Besides, Bloom intends to emphasize the common history of persecution which the Irish share with the Jews and tries to awaken them from mimicking the empire to a sense of "injustice`" Bloom`s assertion of "injustice" surpasses narrow nationalism. For Joyce, `nationalist` oppressors are in a sense collaborators of imperialism. |