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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Главный автор: Lachenicht, Susanne
Формат: Article ou chapitre numérique
Язык:Français
Опубликовано: 2015
Online-ссылка:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Итог: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.