TITLE:
Liberating Ulysses: Joyce Reimagined in Global South Decolonial Digital Humanities Practices
AUTHORS:
Wei Wei
KEYWORDS:
Decolonial Computing, Global South, Digital Humanities, James Joyce, Minimal Computing, Technological Sovereignty
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.12 No.9,
September
23,
2025
ABSTRACT: This article explores how James Joyce and his works are reinterpreted through decolonial digital humanities methodologies from Global South perspectives. The epistemological coloniality of digital humanities has prompted Global South scholars to develop alternative technological frameworks, infrastructures, and interpretive strategies. Through analysis of specific cases from the Global South—Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—this article argues that decolonial computing challenges the Western-centric biases of established Joyce studies. Minimal computing, community-driven archival construction, and South-South cooperation models provide viable pathways for reconstructing the power geometries of literary studies. Multiple practices reveal the latent decolonial dimensions in Joyce’s works, where his linguistic experiments resonate with epistemological resistance in the Global South. Decolonial digital humanities offers new theoretical and methodological frameworks for understanding the global circulation and localization of modernist literature.