Melville and the Idea of Blackness: Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth Century America
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)
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By examining the unique problems that "blackness" signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, "Benito Cereno, and The Encantadas, Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's critics typically read blackness as either a metaphor for the haunting power of slavery or an allegory of moral evil, Freeburg asserts that blackness functions as the site where Melville...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1107022061
ISBN13:9781107022065
Release Date:August 2012
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:214 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"
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