Abstract
Language, Social identity and Religion are three major concerns of cultural studies. Language in literary texts plays a major role in constructing meaning and reflecting the author`s intention. Likewise religion as a cultural politics is a dominant factor in shaping mind as well in affecting the framework of literary text. Religion is one of the emerging issues in the modern era and forms the backbone of most literary works. Religion as a theme is seen to influence the operation of those who believe in it. It forms the functional framework that predetermines ones actions and behavior. Furthermore, social identity decides on the status of the social class and their material life situation. Social identity relates to how we identify ourselves in relation to others according to what we have in common. All these issues are interrelated since they all cooperate and construct a social and cultural materiality. Proper cultural and social materials and issues such as religious matters. His major short story collection, <i>Dubliners</i>, revolves around the lifestyle of the Irish middle-class in Dublin around the late 1800s and early 1900s. This collection is decorated with violated norms and ritualistic behavior that are part of social constructs. Addressing social, religious and cultural issues, cultural This study aims to clarify how James Joyce`s <i>Dubliners</i> reflects the notions of language, social identity and religion as cultural practices and how they construct social and cultural products within the framework of cultural materialism to show how James Joyce criticizes Irish culture at the beginning of the Twentieth century.
Highlights
This paper aims to investigate how the notion of religion as a cultural practice which construct social and cultural products function in James Joyces Dubliners within the framework of Cultural Materialism
Likewise religion as a cultural politics is a dominant factor in shaping mind as well in affecting the framework of literary text
Some critics believe that the background of Cultural Materialism refers to the Historical oriented approaches, but some others maintain that it is the result of Marxism
Summary
This paper aims to investigate how the notion of religion as a cultural practice which construct social and cultural products function in James Joyces Dubliners within the framework of Cultural Materialism. The focus of this study is on Raymond Williams’s cultural materialism. What Jams Joyce wants to insist on his novels is unreliability of religion in an unreliable world. The messy spiritual breakdown of modern society declines the chances of spiritual stability and increases disorder of once life. Irish society suffers from spiritual sterility that conducts their life and inflicts the Dubliners ‘behavior. Such conduct deprives them, making them preys of a superficial world full of delusion and seclusion. Joyce‘s Dubliners is a spiritually famished prisoner serving time in a barren cell to which there seems to be no key. Joyce‘s Dubliners is a spiritually famished prisoner serving time in a barren cell to which there seems to be no key. [1]
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