Hearts of darkness
Subtitle: Melville, Conrad and narratives of oppression
By: edited by Paweł Je̦drzejko, Milton M. Reigelman, Zuzanna Szatanik
Series: Melville studies series
Publisher: M-Studio
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Zabrze [Poland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9788362023400
Subjects: Colonies in literature; History and criticism; Cultural pluralism in literature; Imperialism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Melville's work: the cultural sweat of slavery  -- Paula Kopacz; title: "Who aint a slave?": Moby-Dick and the slave narrative tradition  -- William Merill Decker; title: The American Calumet peace pipe: Melville's late visions of intersection of race  -- Yukiko Oshima; title: The threat of a revolution on board the Bellipotent: darkness in Billy Budd, Sailor  -- Rodrigo Andrés; title: The representation of the other in Conrad's Heart of Darkness  -- Fabio De Leonardis; title: In the dark narcissim of se(a)cret sh(e)aring/sh(e)aring se(a)cret: Conrad, Melville, and the eruption of the other  -- Yuji Kato; title: The human factor in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness  -- Malika Rebai Maamri; title: Melville among the cannibals and American empire  -- T. Walter Herbert; title: Melville's cold war: re-reading C.L.R. James's Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways  -- Arthur Redding; title: "Unfathomable cravings" and "enchanted heysts": the ironic rescuer in Pierre and Victory  -- John T. Matteson; title: From desertion comes solace - perhaps: the stories of Agatha Hunilla, Amy Foster, and Winnie Verloc  -- Sanford E. Marovitz; title: The tragedy of trauma: Kurts and Ahab  -- Anna Marta Szczepan-Wojnarska; title: Uncanny Conrad: home, exile, memory, and communion with the dead  -- Laurence Davies; title: Ships passing: encounters with strangers in Melville's "Benito Cereno" and Conrad's "The secret sharer" -- John D. Schwetman.