Joyce, Multilingualism, and the Ethics of Reading

Dr. Boriana Alexandrova is Lecturer in Women’s Studies at the University of York, UK. She has published on Irish modernism, multilingualism, translation, and disability. She works across several languages, including Russian, Bulgarian, English, German, and Italian, and her work employs a wide range of methodological approaches from disability theory, the medical humanities, feminist, queer, and cultural theory, phenomenology, trauma studies, and performance. Her work beyond Joyce engages with writers and artists including Eimear McBride, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Margaret Randall, and Marina Abramović.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1.  Multilingual Matter-er-s: The materiality of foreign speech.- Chapter 2.  Thereinofter Is the Sounddance: Multilingual Phonologies and Sound Patterning in the Wake.- Chapter 3.   Multilingualism in Translation: The Russian Wake(s).- Chapter 4.  Towards an Ethics of Multilingualism.

“Joyce, Multilingualism, and the Ethics of Reading, is a bold and remarkable endeavor that aims at making Finnegans Wake readable by tackling squarely its most obvious but also most obfuscating dimension: dense multilingualism. … This book offers a solid scholarly contributionto Joyce and to all these domains, and it will remain on our shelves for a long time.” (Jean-Michel Rabaté, James Joyce Literary Supplement, Vol. 35 (1), 2021)