Religion and Secularism in America’s Small-Town Jewish Communities

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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Auteur principal: Weissbach, Lee Shai
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Publié: 2015
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spelling cairn-RFEA_141_0095RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2014-4-page-95?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/e.rfea.141.0095 Religion and Secularism in America’s Small-Town Jewish Communities Weissbach, Lee Shai2015 fre Revue française d’études américaines | 141 | 4 | 2015-08-19 | p. 95-106 | 0397-7870 RFEA_14117 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.
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