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Index
Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
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, 1848–1860
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 Omoo
Chapter Five: “He alo ā he alo”: Jonathan Kamakawiwo’ole Osorio at the Melville and the Pacific Conference
Dismembering Láhui: 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
Chapter Nine: Mapping Imagination and Experience in Melville’s Pacific Novels
Chapter 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 Encantadas”
Chapter 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 Television
Chapter 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
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