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3 Ahab's Whale-A Bleeding Wound

© 2021 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

© 2021 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Acknowledgments vii
  3. Contents ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1 The Enigma of Power 27
  6. 2 Call Me Ishmael 35
  7. 3 Ahab's Whale-A Bleeding Wound 48
  8. 4 Ishmael's Whale-Whiteness and the Witness, or the Collapse of the Author 67
  9. Notes 121
  10. Bibliography 165
  11. Index 173
Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power
This chapter is in the book Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804766968-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Acknowledgments vii
  3. Contents ix
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1 The Enigma of Power 27
  6. 2 Call Me Ishmael 35
  7. 3 Ahab's Whale-A Bleeding Wound 48
  8. 4 Ishmael's Whale-Whiteness and the Witness, or the Collapse of the Author 67
  9. Notes 121
  10. Bibliography 165
  11. Index 173
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