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This paper investigates the developing representation of place in the writings of James Joyce arguing that the reading of such places may be significantly influenced by different kinds of “localisation effect” relating to the locality of the reader. It begins with a reading of Stephen’s promised departure from Dublin at the end of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man which questions the extent to which his intended journey has an actual or implied destination. The realisation that this question is unanswered in the text gives rise to an extended discussion of the global places of Joyce’s reception as a writer which is prompted by the punning associations of the word “roads.” A consideration of aspects of Joyce’s treatment in his later writing of African and Asian places gives way to a contrast between two modes of reading Leopold Bloom’s reference to “Great battle, Tokio” in the “Eumaeus” episode of Ulysses (U 16.1240). One of these readings comes from Jacques Derrida’s classic deconstructive reading of Ulysses in his essay “Ulysse gramophone: Oui-dire de Joyce” and the other returns to Joyce’s source in the Dublin Evening Telegraph of Thursday 16 June 1904 to identify the place actually referred to as Telissa on the Liaodong peninsula in modern mainland China and consequently somewhat closer to modern Korea than to Japan. These two readings are both characterised by the “localisation effect.” In the first case this producing an openness to the chance or aleatory association and in the second an investigative reading informed by the rigorous particularities of local knowledge and perspective.
