African culture and Melville's art : the creative process in Beni to Cereno and Moby-Dick /
Sterling Stuckey.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- ix, 154 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-141) and index.
The tambourine in glory -- Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick -- The hatche t-polishers, Benito Cereno, and Amasa Delano -- Cheer and gloom : Frede rick Douglass and Herman Melville on slave music and dance -- Appendix : Chapter XVI from Captain Amasa Delano's A narrative of voyages and tr avels.