The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New WorldHenry Holt and Company, 2014年1月14日 - 384 頁 From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyond |
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... Benito Cerreño leapt overboard to escape Mori and came crashing down at his feet. It was at that point, after ... Benito Cereno. Whether he was impressed with the slaves' wile or intrigued by Amasa Delano's naïveté, Melville took chapter ...
... Benito Cereno, published in installments in a magazine called Putnam's Monthly in late 1855, is mostly faithful to ... Benito Cereno takes place in the fictional Delano's mind. Page after page is devoted to his reveries, and readers ...
Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Greg Grandin. Melville wrote Benito Cereno midway between the critical and commercial failure of 1851's Moby-Dick and the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, at a moment when it ...
... Benito Cereno is an exception. Even here, though, Melville, by forcing the reader to adopt the perspective of Amasa Delano, is concerned less with exposing specific social horrors than with revealing slavery's foundational deception—not ...
... Benito Cereno so enduring a story—and Melville such an astute appraiser of slavery's true power and lasting legacy. I first learned that Benito Cereno was based on actual events when I assigned the novella for a seminar I taught on ...