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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 164.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Knowing the "bottomless deep": Moby-Dick -- Living "within the maelstrom": Pierre -- Thwarting the "regulated mind": "Benito Cereno" -- Embodying the "assaults of time": "the encantadas." |
| Summary |
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 correlates the sociopolitical challenges of transatlantic slavery and US colonial expansion with philosophical concerns about mastery. By focusing on Melville's iconic interracial encounters, Freeburg reveals the important role blackness plays in Melville's portrayal of characters' arduous attempts to seize their own destiny, amass scientific knowledge and perfect themselves. A valuable resource for scholars and graduate students in American literature, this text will also appeal to those working in American, African American and postcolonial studies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Race relations in literature.
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Race relations in literature. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Black people -- Race identity -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Black people -- Race identity. |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Freeburg, Christopher. Melville and the idea of blackness. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107022065 (DLC) 2012009116 (OCoLC)780161602 |
| ISBN |
9781139526166 (electronic book) |
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1139526162 (electronic book) |
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9781139135344 (electronic book) |
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1139135341 (electronic book) |
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9781107022065 |
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1107022061 |
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