Religious Orthodoxy and Trans-Confessional Practices in Colonial New York and South Carolina

This article explores the politics of Melville’s use of Shakespeare in Typee and Omoo. It argues that the Polynesian islands are textual and intertextual spaces and shows that allusions to Shakespeare bring about a “redistribution of the sensible” (Jacques Rancière) which exposes colonisation as a...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Lachenicht, Susanne
Formáid: Article ou chapitre numérique
Teanga:Français
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: 2015
Rochtain ar líne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Achoimre:This article explores the politics of Melville’s use of Shakespeare in Typee and Omoo. It argues that the Polynesian islands are textual and intertextual spaces and shows that allusions to Shakespeare bring about a “redistribution of the sensible” (Jacques Rancière) which exposes colonisation as a fraud.