African culture and Melville's art : the creative process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick / Sterling Stuckey.

Author/creator Stuckey, Sterling
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
Descriptionix, 154 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents The tambourine in glory -- Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick -- The hatchet-polishers, Benito Cereno, and Amasa Delano -- Cheer and gloom : Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville on slave music and dance -- Appendix : Chapter XVI from Captain Amasa Delano's A narrative of voyages and travels.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [125]-141) and index.
LCCN 2008007992
ISBN9780195372700 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN0195372700 (cloth : acid-free paper)