Article: Echoes of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in Melville's "Benito Cereno".(Critical essay)

Article: Critical Essays on Herman Melville's "Benito ...
Studies in Short Fiction;  June 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Burkholder's impressive assembly of "Benito Cereno" critics and criticism. As in the ... scholarship on Melville in general and "Benito Cereno" specifically. This introduction ... reviews are rare, largely because "Benito Cereno" came hard on the heels of the publication ...

Article: The politics of perception in Herman Melville's Benito ...
Studies in American Fiction;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the issue from a different angle, Benito Cereno also examines the relationship of perception ... perception. I argue that this aspect of Benito Cereno provided Johnson with a usable literary ... established by Harold H. Scudder in 1928, Benito Cereno is a fictional re-rendering of ...

Article: Milwaukee Rep's `Benito Cereno' poignantly ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 27, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... director Ed Morgan's new production of "Benito Cereno," the entire cast representing African ... tale that is the factual spine of "Benito Cereno." This is shared history, and on ... offering assistance to its captain, Benito Cereno, and he eventually sorted out the ...

Article: Voicing slavery through silence: narrative mutiny in Melville's ...
Mosaic (Winnipeg);  March 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... bears directly on our understanding of Benito Cereno (1855), Melville's fictionalized ... the indeterminacy that characterizes Benito Cereno derives less from some inherently unstable ... present essay I propose to examine Benito Cereno, both as an embodiment of Melville ...

Article: Melville's Untimely History: "Benito Cereno" as ...
The Arizona Quarterly;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Revolutionary archive.1 Reworking, in "Benito Cereno," the story of a slave rebellion ... how historical memory signifies, "Benito Cereno" poses challenges that can best be ... to put together meaning in time. "Benito Cereno" performs similar work, insisting ...

Article: Mutiny with a mission. (Edward Morgan's play 'Benito ...
American Theatre;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... encounter with the Tryal, her captain Benito Cereno and the Africans on board, who had ... was inspired to pen his own version, Benito Cereno, in 1856, and more than a century ... American Place Theatre. This year Benito Cereno rose again, rendered anew in late ...

Article: Captain Babo's Cabin: Stowe, race and misreading in ...
Leviathan;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... songs of the inspirited negroes. "Benito Cereno" As is now widely understood in Melville criticism, "Benito Cereno" everywhere suggests that the primary ... Mankind, published the year before "Benito Cereno." (3) But we might find an even ...