Melville’s Obsessional Form: Disjunction and Refusal in “Benito Cereno”

“Benito Cereno” offers an exemplary text to consider obsession in relation to narrative form. Melville’s tale operates on at least two levels: the first part, a third-person narration that exhausts itself when “Melville’s ultimate dupe” (Ngai 61), Captain Delano, finally realizes there has been a sl...

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Main Author: Matthew Scully
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2023-09-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/20794
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