The Christian Right Goes to Congress

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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spelling cairn-RFEA_141_0132RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2014-4-page-132?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/e.rfea.141.0132 The Christian Right Goes to Congress Levy, Elizabeth2015 fre Revue française d’études américaines | 141 | 4 | 2015-08-19 | p. 132-144 | 0397-7870 RFEA_14121 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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