Chapter 4 Navigating the Arabic Whale: Melville and Iḥsān ‘Abbās

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I Scriptural Circulations
6. Chapter 1 Judaic Maccabæus: Longfellow and Joseph Massel 13
7. Chapter 2 Mahomet or Muḥammad? Irving and ‘Alī Ḥusnī al-Kharbūṭlī 45
8. PART II Orienting the American Romance
9. Chapter 3 Inscribing the Persian Letter: Hawthorne and Sīmīn Dāneshvar 75
10. Chapter 4 Navigating the Arabic Whale: Melville and Iḥsān ‘Abbās 99
11. PART III ‘I too am untranslatable’: Middle Eastern Leaves
12. Chapter 5 The New Bible in Hebrew: Whitman and Simon Halkin 125
13. Chapter 6 American ‘Song’ of Iraqi Exile: Whitman and Saadi Youssef 156
14. Notes 187
15. Bibliography 214
16. Index 227