Week 9 – Racial Discourse and Irish History – Luke Gibbons (Castle)

James Joyce’s writings have been harshly criticized in powerful contemporary critiques, because he is viewed as being identified with the colonial administration in his own country, and in “subjection to English society” (497).  This brings up a question for us as believers, regardless of the nation-state we live in:  Whose kingdom do we represent when there is a collision of values between the two:  our nation’s or God’s?