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Hardcover African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick Book
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ISBN: B007YXRPBI

ISBN13: 9780195372700

African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick

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Although Herman Melville's masterworks Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno have long been the subject of vigorous scholarly examination, the impact of African culture on these works has received surprisingly little critical attention. Presenting a groundbreaking reappraisal of these two powerful pieces of fiction, Sterling Stuckey reveals how African customs and rituals heavily influenced one of America's greatest novelists.

The Melville that emerges...

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