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



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Titolo: "Whole oceans away" : Melville and the Pacific / / edited by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2007
©2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (373 p.)
Disciplina: 813.3
Soggetto topico: Authors, American - 19th century
Sea stories, American - History and criticism
Soggetto geografico: Oceania Description and travel
Oceania In literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Persona (resp. second.): BarnumJill <1947-2006, >
KelleyWyn
StenChristopher <1944->
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""
Titolo autorizzato: "Whole oceans away"  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-63101-017-4
1-63101-016-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465182203321
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