2014/1 ‒ Producing Places

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    Disassembling the »SAN DOMINICK«. Sovereignty, the Slave Ship, and Partisanship in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
    Robinson, Ben (2014) , S. 135-150
    Melville’s Benito Cereno (1855) concentrates a historico-political problematic in the figure of a ship named ›SAN DOMINICK‹. This paper focuses on the distinctive political character of the slave ship in revolt.The partisan uprising produces an interrogation of the concept of sovereignty and the operations of exclusion on which it is premised. Superimposing the sovereign ship of state and the slave ship, Melville’s novella presents a relation constitutive of the Atlantic world.