Tall-fins and tale-ends in Taiwan: cetacean exploitation, oil refineries, and Moby-Dick

• Main Author: Iris Ralph
• Other Authors: 淡江大學英文學系
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia * Department of English 2014
• Subjects: animal studies;cetacean species;ecocriticism;Melville;Moby-Dick;naphtha cracker plants;oil industry;Taiwan;whale industry; Pacific; Slaughter; Humpback Whale
• Online Access: 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

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...