2016
DOI: 10.37536/ecozona.2016.7.2.860
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<b>James Joyce's Urban EcoAnarchism</b> // El ecoanarquismo urbano de James Joyce

Abstract: In this paper I contend James Joyce invests Finnegans Wake’s river-woman Anna Livia Plurabelle with the agency to reconnect Dublin’s inhabitants to the environs that resource their urban ecology. In early twentieth-century Dublin, Nature retained the fearsome power of Giambattista Vico’s thunderclap. Regular typhoid outbreaks contributed to increased infant mortality rates in the inner city; and, as Anne Marie D’Arcy observes, the River Liffey delta could not absorb the raw sewerage discharged from the city’s … Show more

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