"Guinea" of White-Jacket and Chief Justice Shaw
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9589583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Huntress (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 639 |
| Publication date | 1972-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2924661 |
| OpenAlex | W2317671234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
TN CHAPTER 90 OF White-Jacket, The Manning of Navies, MelI ville introduced a minor character of some interest, the slave Guinea. This slave, the personal servant of the purser, was the occasion for one of Melville's few comments on the institution of slavery, provoked a bitter comparison between the easy life of Guinea and the slavery of the ordinary seaman, and figured in a quite important law case in which Melville must have been very much interested. Melville introduced Guinea as follows
Art · Biology · Economic Justice · Ethnology · New guinea · Political science · Sociology · White (mutation) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Genetics · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1975 - 2019 (45) |
| Highly cited | No |