IV God Damn the Repo Man

[Doug Millison]

>  alice:
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> (Flintstone's song We're Going Way Out)
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>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obyuyajrz9g

Far out, man!

> Decentering the Racial Paradigm: A Literary Analysis of the "Stubb's
> Supper" Chapter in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
>
> http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?id=226

Thanks for the article, too.

"Abstract: This purpose of this thesis is to examine the way in which  
Herman Melville utilizes the minstrel stereotype not as tool  
subjugation, but as a means of empowerment and marker of identity in  
the "Stubb's Supper" chapter of Moby-Dick. By first contextualizing  
the cultural and political environment of 1850-51, the year of Moby- 
Dick's composition, an analysis is constructed in order to take into  
account the effects of personal, familial, political, philosophical,  
and cultural factors on Melville's construction of race. An  
examination of Melville's familial and personal ties to the recently  
enforced Fugitive Slave Law in Boston is considered in order to  
suggest a series of powerful influences were effecting Melville during  
Moby-Dick's composition. In addition, philosophical and historical  
studies are conducted in order to further contextualize and strengthen  
a close reading of "Stubb's Supper."

"Gershom! Where be you at, my man!" [MD 278]