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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Autor principal: Lachenicht, Susanne
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spelling cairn-RFEA_141_0021RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2014-4-page-21?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/e.rfea.141.0021 Religious Orthodoxy and Trans-Confessional Practices in Colonial New York and South Carolina Lachenicht, Susanne2015 fre Revue française d’études américaines | 141 | 4 | 2015-08-19 | p. 21-31 | 0397-7870 RFEA_14110 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.Cairn free access
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description 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.
author Lachenicht, Susanne
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title_short Religious Orthodoxy and Trans-Confessional Practices in Colonial New York and South Carolina
title_full Religious Orthodoxy and Trans-Confessional Practices in Colonial New York and South Carolina
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