Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Hawaiian Diacriticals
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Pacific Subjects
  • Chapter one: Typee: Melville's Contribution to the Well-Being of Native Hawaiians
  • Chapter Two: Fayaway and Her Sisters: Gender, Popular Literature, and Manifest Destiny in the Pacific, 1848â€?1860
  • Chapter Three: Depraved and Vicious / Urbane and Domestic: Herman Melville, Elizabeth Sanders, and Traditions of Figuring Hawaiians
  • Chapter Four: Sociolinguistic-Ethnohistorical Observations on Pidgin English in Typee and OmooChapter Five: He alo Ä? he alo: Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio at the Melville and the Pacific Conference
  • Dismembering LÄ?hui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887
  • Part II: Colonial Appropriations and Resistance
  • Chapter Six: A work I Have Never Happened to Meet
  • Melville'S versions of Porter in Typee
  • Chapter Seven: Plagiarizing Polynesia: Decolonization in Melville's Omoo Borrowings
  • Chapter Eight: Mapping the Marquesas for Typee
  • Chapter Nine: Mapping Imagination and Experience in Melville's Pacific NovelsChapter Ten: Rozoko in the Pacific: Melville's Natural History of Creation
  • Part III: Empire, Race, and Nation
  • Chapter Eleven: Travels in the Interior: Typee, Pym, and the Limits of Transculturation
  • Chapter Twelve: Duty and Profit Hand in Hand: Melville, Whaling, and the Failure of Heroic Materialism
  • Chapter Thirteen: Strike through the Unreasoning Masks: Moby-Dick and Japan
  • Chapter Fourteen: The Subordinate Phantoms: Melville's Conflicted Response to Asia in Moby-Dick
  • Chapter Fifteen: Facts Picked Up in the Pacific: Fragmentation, Deformation, and the (Cultural) Uses of Enchantment in The EncantadasChapter Sixteen: Of Mimicry and Masques: Benito Cereno and the National Allegory
  • Part IV: Postcolonial Reflections
  • Chapter Seventeen: Poem as Palm: Polynesia and Melville's Turn to Poetry
  • Chapter Eighteen: Tribal Queequeg and Daniel Quinn: Glimpsing Melville's Undiscovered Prime
  • Chapter Nineteen: Taking the Polynesians to Heart: Melville's Typee and Merwin's The Folding Cliffs
  • Chapter Twenty: Marquesan Survivals: Melville and the Sacrifice of Reality TelevisionChapter Twenty-One: Lines of Dissent: Oceanic Tattoo and the Colonial Contest
  • Chapter Twenty-Two: Moby-Dick and the War on Terror
  • Contributors
  • Works Cited
  • Index