Stuckey, Sterling.

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.

9780199768561

2008-007992


Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge--Africa.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Benito Cereno.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.

813.3