Altman in Joyce’s Work, from Dubliners to Ulysses

Reading postcolonial Joyce through Altman’s presence in his works. Backgrounds on Dubliners’ story “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” and Joyce’s interest in Triestine Jewry during its composition. Reading Altman’s shadow as absent-center of the story’s textual allusions. Altman in Ulysses. Altman’s career and Bloom’s labor-minded nationalism. Bloom, Jewish assimilation, and anti-Semitism in colonial spaces and nationalist culture. Allusions to the Corporation in the novel as nationalist cipher of Altman. Altman-Bloom-Dedalus and the politics of anti-Semitism in empire. Altman parallels with Bloom’s character, family circumstances, identity-struggle, and political vision. Bloom-Altman alienation from Irish Catholicism, physical-force Republicanism, and internationalist Socialism. An Altman-Bloom left-of-center independent Ireland.