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1 online resource (301 pages) |
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Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; 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 |
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Chapter Five: "He alo ā he alo": Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio at the Melville and the Pacific ConferenceDismembering Láhui: 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; Chapter Nine: Mapping Imagination and Experience in Melville's Pacific Novels; Chapter Ten: Rozoko in the Pacific: Melville's Natural History of Creation |
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Part III: Empire, Race, and NationChapter 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." |
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Chapter Sixteen: Of Mimicry and Masques: Benito Cereno and the National AllegoryPart 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 |
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Chapter Twenty-Two: Moby-Dick and the War on TerrorContributors; Works Cited; Index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Travel -- Oceania
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 fast |
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
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Sea stories, American -- History and criticism
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Authors, American
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Literature
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Sea stories, American
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Travel
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Oceania -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093911
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Oceania -- In literature
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Oceania
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Kelley, Wyn.
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Sten, Christopher, 1944-
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| ISBN |
9781631010163 |
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1631010166 |
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