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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465182203321

Titolo

"Whole oceans away" : Melville and the Pacific / / edited by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-63101-017-4

1-63101-016-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Disciplina

813.3

Soggetti

Authors, American - 19th century

Sea stories, American - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Oceania Description and travel

Oceania In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on papers presented at the Fourth International Melville Society Conference held in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii on June 3-7, 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Hawaiian Diacriticals""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Pacific Subjects""; ""Chapter one: Typee: Melville's ""Contribution"" to the Well-Being of Native Hawaiians""; ""Chapter Two: Fayaway and Her Sisters: Gender, Popular Literature, and Manifest Destiny in the Pacific, 1848�1860""; ""Chapter Three: ""Depraved and Vicious"" / Urbane and Domestic: Herman Melville, Elizabeth Sanders, and Traditions of Figuring Hawaiians""

""Chapter Four: Sociolinguistic-Ethnohistorical Observations on Pidgin English in Typee and Omoo""""Chapter Five: ""He alo Ä? he alo"": Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio at the Melville and the Pacific Conference""; ""Dismembering LÄ?hui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887""; ""Part II: Colonial Appropriations and Resistance""; ""Chapter Six: ""A work I Have Never Happened to Meet"";  Melville'S versions of Porter in Typee""; ""Chapter Seven: Plagiarizing Polynesia: Decolonization in Melville's  Omoo Borrowings""; ""Chapter Eight:



Mapping the Marquesas for Typee""

""Chapter Nine: Mapping Imagination and Experience in Melville's Pacific Novels""""Chapter Ten: Rozoko in the Pacific: Melville's Natural History of Creation""; ""Part III: Empire, Race, and Nation""; ""Chapter Eleven: Travels in the Interior: Typee, Pym, and the Limits of  Transculturation""; ""Chapter Twelve: ""Duty and Profit Hand in Hand"": Melville, Whaling, and the Failure of Heroic Materialism""; ""Chapter Thirteen: ""Strike through the Unreasoning Masks"": Moby-Dick and Japan""; ""Chapter Fourteen: ""The Subordinate Phantoms"": Melville's Conflicted Response to Asia in Moby-Dick""

""Chapter Fifteen: ""Facts Picked Up in the Pacific"": Fragmentation, Deformation, and the (Cultural) Uses of Enchantment in ""The Encantadas""""""Chapter Sixteen: Of Mimicry and Masques: Benito Cereno and the National Allegory""; ""Part IV: Postcolonial Reflections""; ""Chapter Seventeen: Poem as Palm: Polynesia and Melville's Turn to Poetry""; ""Chapter Eighteen: Tribal Queequeg and Daniel Quinn: Glimpsing Melville's ""Undiscovered Prime""""; ""Chapter Nineteen: Taking the Polynesians to Heart: Melville's Typee and Merwin's The Folding Cliffs""

""Chapter Twenty: Marquesan Survivals: Melville and the Sacrifice of Reality Television""""Chapter Twenty-One: Lines of Dissent: Oceanic Tattoo and the Colonial Contest""; ""Chapter Twenty-Two: Moby-Dick and the War on Terror""; ""Contributors""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""