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

• Main Author: Ralph, Iris /
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Ecocriticism 2014
• Subjects: Literature; American Literature; animal studies; cetacean species; ecocriticism; Melville; Moby-Dick; naphtha cracker plants; oil industry; Taiwan; whale industry; posthumanism; Pacific; Slaughter; Humpback Whale
• Online Access: https://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/view/553

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...