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Melville's Typee and Moby-Dick.(Herman Melville)(Critical essay)
From: The Explicator
Date: 20070101
Author:Elmore, Owen
As a young man, Herman Melville abandoned a whaling voyage to take up temporary residence among a tribe of Marquesan Islanders in the South Seas. The result of this experience is reflected in Melville's popular record of his stay in the Islands, Typee. This book employs a far different ethnographic method than that used in the majority of records of missionary and scientific exploration of cultural difference. Typee is filled with debasive-regenerate content, all of which appears designed to force Western readers to doubt their glorified self-opinions regarding civilized and/or ...
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