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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791302903321

Autore

Stuckey Sterling

Titolo

African culture and Melville's art [[electronic resource] ] : the creative process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick / / Sterling Stuckey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-772298-9

0-19-045176-9

0-19-970686-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 154 p.)

Disciplina

813.3

Soggetti

Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2009.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; 1. The Tambourine in Glory; 2. Benito Cereno and Moby Dick; 3. The Hatchet-Polishers, Benito Cereno, and Amasa Delano; 4. Cheer and Gloom: Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville on Slave Music and Dance; Appendix: Chapter XVI from Captain Amasa Delano's A Narrative of Voyages and Travels

Sommario/riassunto

This work tells how slave music and dance are used by Melville in 'Moby-Dick' in the creation of some of his most tragic and avant-garde art. Targeting how he conceived and executed his art, we find in this volume a degree of heretofore unprobed intertexuality in his work.