Date of Award
Spring 6-12-2026
Document Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
M.A. in English
Organizational Unit
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, English and Literary Arts
First Advisor
Andrew Kaplan
Second Advisor
Joanna Howard
Third Advisor
Chad Leahy
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All Rights Reserved.
Keywords
2666, Anti-colonialism, Anti-fascism, Bolaño, Joyce, Ulysses
Abstract
My thesis is going to explore the (Irish) Anti-Colonial and (Spanish) Anti-Fascist parallels between James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 (2004). Using the major epic novels of two exiled authors, I hope to explore the intersections of poetic fiction and political resistance. I read these texts as bookends spanning the pre- and post-war periods, highlighting the continuities of colonialism, totalitarianism, and fascism, and the way these authors develop a post/modernist narrative that nods towards these themes. I plan to draw on Alberto Toscano’s LateFascism (2023) as a means of situating these authors’ novels with our own political moment in the United States. By juxtaposing or “constellating” Ulysses and 2666, I am interested in exploring how the methods of modernism and postmodernism explore colonialism and its fascist legacies.
Copyright Date
6-2026
Publication Statement
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Rights Holder
Lily V. McManamy
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
English (eng)
Extent
67 pgs
File Size
506 KB
Recommended Citation
McManamy, Lily V., "The Permanent Emergency: The Anti-Fascist and Anti-Colonial Intersections of James Joyce’s Ulysses and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666" (2026). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2733.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/2733
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