HERMAN MELVILLE’S BENITO CERENO AND THE SUBVERSION OF THE SLAVERY IDEOLOGY
HERMAN MELVILLE’S BENITO CERENO AND THE SUBVERSION OF THE SLAVERY IDEOLOGY
Author(s): Roxana MiheleSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Philology, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: ideology; power relations; racial dynamics; racial stereotypes; subversion; slavery;
Summary/Abstract: Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno and the Subversion of the Slavery Ideology. The current paper aims to analyse in Herman Melville’s novella the interplay between the ambiguous narrative voice limited by Amasa Delano’s racially charged perception of events and the auctorial presence in the text. We argue that in Benito Cereno, the writer has constructed a symbolically charged but carefully targeted criticism against the social and moral failure of the slavery system in the U.S.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philologia
- Issue Year: 64/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 81-96
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English