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MLA 2001 ethnic rhetoric in Melville's "Benito Cereno" and The Confidence-Man. (Abstracts).(Herman Melville)(Brief Article)

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From: Melville Society Extracts
Date: 20020201
Author:Marr, Timothy W.

The panel sponsored by the Melville Society at the 2001 MLA convened on Thursday evening to hear papers on the theme of "Ethnic Rhetoric in Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" and The Confidence-Man." The night venue in a hotel full of English professors near the meandering Mississippi was well-suited to the task of "discussing themes that thrive in shade" (Clarel4.17.202). The three papers by Beverly Hume, James Salazar, and Samuel Otter presented perspectives on Melville's fiction from the mid-1850s: a dark time in the careers of both Melville and the nation. The talks examined ...

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