Today we are joined by our special guest, Jeremy Colangelo, lecturer at the University of Western Ontario and specialist in Joyce and disability studies. Together with Jeremy we puzzle with various questions that have been associated with ‘Nausicaa’ for several decades. Is the episode truly split between two modes of consciousness, those of Gerty and Bloom, or is it Bloom’s consciousness all along? Is Gerty disarmed by the prose style of women’s magazines or does she truly have an agency? Is Bloom really the innocent everyman that we have seen in other episodes or does he have a dark side?
Libations:
- Jeremy: Tea (when he makes tea, he makes tea) in a mug with his cat’s face printed on it
- Eric: Key Lime Pi (sour), Westbrook Brewing Company, Mount Pleasant, SC (in anticipation of the holidays)
- Shinjini: Rose syrup flavored smoothie (a surprise departure from tea)
Mentions:
- Jeremy Colangelo, Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature (Michigan UP, 2021)
- Jeremy Colangelo, ed. Joyce Writing Disability, (Florida UP, 2022)
- April Pelt, “Advertising Agency: Print Culture and Female Sexuality in ‘Nausicaa’” (James Joyce Quarterly, 2010)
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