Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan: cetacean exploitation, oil refineries, and Moby-Dick
This paper addresses the nineteenth-century novel Moby-Dick (1851) as a “cetacean text” and as a text that can be taught to question the animal/human binary that both separates and draws attention to bonds between humans and cetaceans. Herman Melville’s novel, belonging to the period of American lit...
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fttamkanguniv:oai:tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:987654321/98500 2023-05-15T16:36:07+02:00 Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan: cetacean exploitation, oil refineries, and Moby-Dick Iris Ralph 淡江大學英文學系 2014 http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/handle/987654321/98500 http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/bitstream/987654321/98500/-1/Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan cetacean exploitation, oil refineries and Moby-Dick.pdf http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/bitstream/987654321/98500/-1/index.html en en_US eng University of British Columbia * Department of English Journal of Ecocriticism 6(1), pp.1-12 1916-1549 http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/handle/987654321/98500 http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/bitstream/987654321/98500/-1/Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan cetacean exploitation, oil refineries and Moby-Dick.pdf http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/bitstream/987654321/98500/-1/index.html animal studies;cetacean species;ecocriticism;Melville;Moby-Dick;naphtha cracker plants;oil industry;Taiwan;whale industry 2014 fttamkanguniv 2022-06-17T00:25:58Z This paper addresses the nineteenth-century novel Moby-Dick (1851) as a “cetacean text” and as a text that can be taught to question the animal/human binary that both separates and draws attention to bonds between humans and cetaceans. Herman Melville’s novel, belonging to the period of American literature that F. O. Matthiessen first famously distinguished as the “American Renaissance” in a study so-titled published in 1941, is being reevaluated today by ecocritics as well as posthumanism and animal studies scholars as a writing that is a cultural record of the North American whaling industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and raises questions about understandings of and assumptions about cetacean slaughter. I tie these concerns to an industry today that threatens cetaceans: the fossil fuel industry, the industry that largely replaced the whaling industry after the twentieth century. I focus mostly on environmental efforts in Taiwan to raise awareness about the fossil fuel industry in Taiwan, namely its petrochemical plants or so called naphtha cracker plants and the deleterious impact these plants have on coastal wetland areas that are home to many species of cetaceans including the endangered species of humpback whale or pink dolphin. Moby-Dick ties to ecocriticism in the eastern regions of the globe not the least by reason of the final scenes of the novel, set in the far western waters of the Pacific. 補正完畢 國外 電子版 CAN Other/Unknown Material Humpback Whale Tamkang University Institutional Repository (TKUIR) / 淡江大學機構典藏 Pacific Slaughter ENVELOPE(-85.633,-85.633,-78.617,-78.617) |
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This paper addresses the nineteenth-century novel Moby-Dick (1851) as a “cetacean text” and as a text that can be taught to question the animal/human binary that both separates and draws attention to bonds between humans and cetaceans. Herman Melville’s novel, belonging to the period of American literature that F. O. Matthiessen first famously distinguished as the “American Renaissance” in a study so-titled published in 1941, is being reevaluated today by ecocritics as well as posthumanism and animal studies scholars as a writing that is a cultural record of the North American whaling industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and raises questions about understandings of and assumptions about cetacean slaughter. I tie these concerns to an industry today that threatens cetaceans: the fossil fuel industry, the industry that largely replaced the whaling industry after the twentieth century. I focus mostly on environmental efforts in Taiwan to raise awareness about the fossil fuel industry in Taiwan, namely its petrochemical plants or so called naphtha cracker plants and the deleterious impact these plants have on coastal wetland areas that are home to many species of cetaceans including the endangered species of humpback whale or pink dolphin. Moby-Dick ties to ecocriticism in the eastern regions of the globe not the least by reason of the final scenes of the novel, set in the far western waters of the Pacific. 補正完畢 國外 電子版 CAN |
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Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan: cetacean exploitation, oil refineries, and Moby-Dick |
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Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan: cetacean exploitation, oil refineries, and Moby-Dick |
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Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan: cetacean exploitation, oil refineries, and Moby-Dick |
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Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan: cetacean exploitation, oil refineries, and Moby-Dick |
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Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan: cetacean exploitation, oil refineries, and Moby-Dick |
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tall-fins and tale-ends in taiwan: cetacean exploitation, oil refineries, and moby-dick |
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University of British Columbia * Department of English |
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2014 |
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http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/handle/987654321/98500 http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/bitstream/987654321/98500/-1/Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan cetacean exploitation, oil refineries and Moby-Dick.pdf http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/bitstream/987654321/98500/-1/index.html |
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Journal of Ecocriticism 6(1), pp.1-12 1916-1549 http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/handle/987654321/98500 http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/bitstream/987654321/98500/-1/Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan cetacean exploitation, oil refineries and Moby-Dick.pdf http://tkuir.lib.tku.edu.tw:8080/dspace/bitstream/987654321/98500/-1/index.html |
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