The Loss of Male Self-Identity in Dubliners

This paper focuses on the issue of Irish male self-identity in Dubliners from a postcolonial feminist perspective, exploring the lives of Trish men living under colonial rule. Set in Dublin society, Dubliners recreates the paralysed state of people in Dublin in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through an analysis of the text, it becomes evident that Joyce primarily depicts the spiritual plight of the male characters to show societal crisis at that time. Therefore, this paper focuses on analyzing the process by which Irish males were forced to accept the constructed identities imposed on them by British colonial rule. They gradually lost their unique identities and were reduced to the “other” in the imperial power. This paper reveals the Irish men’s miserable lives that is marked by, which is characterized by the loss of voice and feminization. This will help us to understand the people and social conditions in Dublin under British colonial rule.