Beyond the Black Atlantic: Pacific Rebellions and the Gothic in Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno”

While previous investigations of the black-white racial dichotomy in Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” have taught us an incalculable amount, paying attention to the complex modalities of Orientalism, rebellion, and transpacific migration in the novella makes even more relevant previous analyses of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Colleen Tripp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2017-10-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/5k00f4gh