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• W7535148 abstract "If anything can be said dominate our cultural and historical preoccupations of recent years, it is the need for greater reticence and restraint in portraying the alien life of others. This pervasive concern with reticence--with the need listen rather than speak for the cultural experience of other peoples--has become a staple feature of such diverse and influential studies as Edward Said's Orientalism, Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures, Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish, Christopher Miller's Blank Darkness and Hayden White's The Content of the Form. In countering our inherited (and largely Eurocentric) notions of the East, for example, Said argues that our most important task just now is overcome the latent imperialism of most Oriental studies, to ask how can study other cultures and peoples from a libertarian, or a non-repressive and non-manipulative, perspective. The difficulty of such a task becomes apparent when Said goes on observe that one would have rethink the whole complex problem of knowledge and power (Orientalism 24). The unusually vexed relation of knowledge and power, and of both the reticence required by a truly libertarian view of other cultures, is that bears directly on our understanding of Benito Cereno (1855), Melville's fictionalized account of an historical slave-revolt on the high seas. Melville's novella is arguably of the 19th-century's most searching explorations of America's peculiar institution, but it is also a work which evidences obvious disdain for any univocal conclusions. To say this is not accept that Melville's work is irony, ambiguity, indeterminacy, or any other form of fictional open-endedness. As I intend argue, the indeterminacy that characterizes Benito Cereno derives less from some inherently unstable property of language than from the author's own uneasiness in portraying an oppressed and voiceless other--a reticence reflected in his story's unique configuration as (what I will call) a text. What I think can be urged for Melville, then, is that for his own reasons and in his own way he anticipates a number of ideological concerns which pervade our current thinking about the narrative representation of other times, other cultures and other lives. In the present essay I propose examine Benito Cereno, both as an embodiment of Melville's anti-slavery sentiment and as a mutinous narrative structure, in an effort see how structure and idea engage each other. More obviously than any other work by Melville, Benito Cereno is a narrative clotted with complications--interpretive gaps and anomalies which seem defy any clear resolution. These extend, of course, from the atmospheric ambiguity generated by the opening description of the gray dawn off the coast of Chile, the bewildering and often sinister-seeming conduct of Benito Cereno himself. To the extent that these complications derive from the limited point of view of Captain Delano, the putative protagonist, they serve recall the reader's own experience with the story: in particular, his or her need transform the text's original opacities into increments of meaning, units of significance that will then contribute the story's hermeneutic clarity. As a way of focusing this readerly desire, Melville relies in Benito Cereno on of the most melodramatic plot structures ever be found in a serious work of fiction. Although the outline of the novella is generally well known, it may prove useful summarize some of its essential moments--both indicate the source of its vexing ambiguity and emphasize the teleological hunger that propels its movement. In August, 1799, while lying at anchor off St. Maria, a deserted island along the southern coast of Chile, Captain Amasa Delano, an American sealer captain from Massachusetts, glimpses in the distance the shadowy figure of another ship making its uncertain way toward the island harbor. …" @default.
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• W7535148 title "Voicing slavery through silence: narrative mutiny in Melville's Benito Cereno" @default.
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