African culture and Melville's art
Subtitle: the creative process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick
By: by Sterling Stuckey.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780195372700
Subjects: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Africa; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The tambourine in glory; title: Benito Cereno and Moby Dick; title: The hatchet-polishers, Benito Cereno, and Amasa Delano; title: Cheer and gloom : Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville on slave music and dance; title: Appendix : Chapter xvi from Captain Amasa Delano's A narrative of voyages and travels.