Nature Voices in Herman Melville’s Typee
The Cocoa-Nut Trees
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21807631 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eman Moh’d Said Ghanem, Eman Ghanem (0000-0002-4461-1829, University of Jordan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 2107-2115 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory and Practice in Language Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1799-2591 • E-ISSN: 2053-0692 |
| Publisher | Academy Publication (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17507/tpls.1308.27 |
| OpenAlex | W4385460798 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
The purpose of this study is to examine the representation of cocoa-nut trees in Herman Melville’s Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846). With the rise of adverse effects of environmental crisis and climate change, calls for action on environment due to its status quo have attracted scholarly attention including the study of literature in lights of environmental humanities. Furthermore, writers have used nature with its diverse elements to contribute into the thematic and narrative structure of their writing. In specific, this study attempts through a close reading of Typee to analyze the cocoa-nut imagery from an ecocritical perspective. It also argues that the narrator’s perception of the cocoa-nut tree has changed over time as a result of his interaction as a white American sailor with the islanders themselves. In other words, the cocoa-nut trees with their multifaceted symbolic representations provide a commentary on the sociopolitical and historical context of the text and reveal the narrator’s endeavors to understand his identity as a 19th century white sailor within non-white and non-Western context. In short, Melville’s Typee centralizes the function of cocoa-nut trees in terms of their textual and contextual significance
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Nut · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |