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Of squalls and mutinies: emergency politics and black democracy in Moby-Dick and ‘The Heroic Slave’

Spengler, Nicholas; (2021) Of squalls and mutinies: emergency politics and black democracy in Moby-Dick and ‘The Heroic Slave’. Textual Practice , 35 (11) pp. 1815-1834. 10.1080/0950236x.2021.1968183. Green open access

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Abstract

This article takes an object-oriented approach to the analogies between weather events and political events in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) and Frederick Douglass’s ‘The Heroic Slave’ (1853), arguing that marine weathers in these maritime fictions take the measure of the political without being reducible to it. I integrate political-ecological theories of emergency and ‘emergence’ with the analogic poetics of both object-oriented philosophy and critical race studies to show how stormy weather in these texts carries a special charge in articulating an emergent politics of Black democracy.

Type: Article
Title: Of squalls and mutinies: emergency politics and black democracy in Moby-Dick and ‘The Heroic Slave’
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2021.1968183
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2021.1968183
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148976
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