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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Glavni autor: Lachenicht, Susanne
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jezik:Français
Izdano: 2015
Online pristup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sažetak: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.