Bull of the Nile: Symbol, history, and racial myth in `Benito Cereno.'

Autor: Horsley-Meacham, G.
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Zdroj: New England Quarterly; Jun91, Vol. 64 Issue 2, p225, 18p
Abstrakt: Examines how in his work `Benito Cereno,' a setting perfectly designed to explore black ethos, Herman Melville buries insight under layers of stereotypic symbol. `Satanizing' his bondsmen; Melville as an unorthodox thinker and ingenious master of suit the ideological imperatives of the slavocracy; Specter of widespread slave revolts; About the book.
Databáze: Complementary Index