Melville and the idea of blackness race and imperialism in nineteenth century America 1st Edition by Christopher Freeburg ISBN 1107022061 978-1107022065

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ISBN 10: 1107022061 

ISBN 13: 978-1107022065

Author: Christopher Freeburg 

 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 U.S. 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.

Table of contents:

 Introduction: Resurrecting Blackness 
1. Knowing the “Bottomless Deep”: Moby-Dick 
2. Living “Within the Maelstrom”: Pierre 
3. Thwarting the “Regulated Mind”: “Benito Cereno” 
4. Embodying the “Assaults of Time”: “The Encantadas”

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