The Whaleness of the Whale: Interspecies Relationality in Moby-Dick and In The Heart of the Sea by Svetlana Seibel

“…Yet, Melville’s novel raises the question of the personhood of the whale time and time again, and this issue comes into even starker relief when considered as part of the narrative matrix formed by Melville’s Moby-Dick, Owen Chase’s narrative of the sinking of the whaleship Essex in 1820, and Ron Howard’s 2015 feature film In the Heart of the Sea. …”
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