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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Tác giả chính: Lachenicht, Susanne
Định dạng: Article ou chapitre numérique
Ngôn ngữ:Français
Được phát hành: 2015
Truy cập trực tuyến:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Tóm tắt: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.