The Sign of the Cannibal - Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader

"Sanborn gives us a systematic, lucid, and thoroughly engaging analysis of the colonial response to cannibalism that illuminates the culture while shedding new light on Melville's works from "Typee" to 'Benito Cereno.'"--John Bryant, Hofstra University

Info autore

Geoffrey Sanborn is Assistant Professor of English at Fairfield University.

Riassunto

Offers a major reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlightenment discourse on cannibalism, and a provocative contribution to postcolonial theory. This title focuses on the representations of cannibalism in three of Melville's key texts-Typee, Moby-Dick, and "Benito Cereno."

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sanborn, Geoffrey Sanborn
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.08.1998
• EAN: 9780822321026
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2102-6
• Pagine: 272
• Illustrazioni: 3 figures
• Serie: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Anthropologie, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Amerikanisches Englisch