Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, both voluntary exiles from their homeland, are two of the best-known writers to come out of Ireland; together, they paint a portrait of Ireland’s literary history that influenced generations of writers to 'have one good look at themselves' by questioning cultural norms– or what we now refer to as 'identity politics'. The conversations currently dominating not only academia, but legal, medical, and political discourses, from the politics of national identity to the ideologies attached to queerness, are remarkably similar to the concerns that emerge when Joyce and Wilde are placed in dialogue. Keeping these discourses in mind, the 'Caliban's Mirror' Special Collection aims to answer the following questions: 'What can a dialogue between Wilde and Joyce illuminate about the social, cultural, and political conditions that produce right-wing ideologies?' and 'How can literature offer resistance, or, at the very least, a counter-discourse and representation of "The Other", in the wake of a turn toward the Right?'. To this end, the collection will address the themes of Law, Politics, and Culture through the works of Joyce and Wilde by considering Otherness, scandal, the politics of identity, and the queering of heteronormativity in both an Irish and global context.
Banner image: photograph issued under CC0 license; portraits by Lawrence.
Editors: Casey Maria Lawrence (Guest Editor), Christopher James Wells (Guest Editor)
Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde
James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and Punitive Child Loss in the Modern Bureaucratic State
Margot Gayle Backus
2024-05-13 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2024
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Special Collection: Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde
Exile and Exodus: Dante, Wilde, Joyce
James Green
2024-05-13 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2024
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Special Collection: Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde
As Camp as a Row of Pink Tents: Stephen’s Portrait of Mr W. S.
Samuel Slote
2024-06-24 Volume 10 • Issue 1 • 2024
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Special Collection: Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde
Wilde about Ulysses: Deleuzian Assemblages and The Importance of Being Oscar
Christopher James Wells and Tim Ziaukas
2024-09-10 Volume 10 • Issue 2 • 2024
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Special Collection: Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde
Homosexual Panic and Necropolitics in The Picture of Dorian Gray and ‘A Painful Case’
Mónica Galindo-González
2025-05-21 Volume 11 • Issue 1 • 2025
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Special Collection: Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde
Special Collections
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Thinking the Political: Theory, Literature, Practice
Poetry Off the Page: Intersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance
Humour as a Human Right
Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery
Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production
Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde
Cultural Representations of Machine Vision
The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past
Medieval Minds and Matter
Representing the Medieval in Popular Culture: Remembering the Angevins
The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty
Production Archives 03: Archival Practices
Production Archives 02: Production Contexts
Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action
Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century
The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine
Binary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital Age
Local and Universal in Irish Literature and Culture
Reading in Ruins: Exploring Posthumanist Narrative Studies
The Language of Perspective
Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain
The Working-Class Avant-Garde
Colonialities in Dispute: Discourses on Colonialism and Race in the Spanish State
Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writers and Intellectuals on Britain and Europe, 1918–2018
Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis
Muslims in the Media
Encounters between Asian and Western Art in the 20th and 21st centuries: a liberating influence for Asia?
Waste: Disposability, Decay, and Depletion
Pride Revisited: Cinema, Activism and Re-Activation
New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records
Utopian Art and Literature from Modern India
Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives
Representing Climate: Local to Global
Cultivating Spheres: Agriculture, Technical Communication, and the Publics
Freedom After Neoliberalism
The Medieval Brain
Remaking Collections
New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies
Imaginaries of the Future 01: Bodies and Media
Imaginaries of the Future 02: Politics, Poetics, Place
Imaginaries of the Future 03: Utopia at the Border
Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies
Station Eleven and Twenty-First-Century Writing
#Agreement20
What’s Left? Marxism, Literature and Culture in the 21st Century
New Voices in Jewish-American Literature
Authors, Narratives, and Audiences in Medieval Saints’ Lives
From TV To Film
American Literature & the Transnational Marketplace
Mnemosyne
Healing Gods, Heroes and Rituals in the Graeco-Roman World
The Abolition of the University