Seuberth L (2022)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2022
Book Volume: 23
Pages Range: 41 - 54
Journal Issue: 1
DOI: 10.5283/copas.357
Open Access Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5283/copas.357
This paper offers a comparative reading of Herman Melville’s romance Moby Dick (1851) and George Saunders’s fantastic ghost story Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), tracing the reverberations of Toni Morrison’s ‘American Africanism’ as a specific kind of White supremacist discourse in both novels. After sketching nineteenth-century romance and recent fantasy literature as liminal genres fitting for a critical negotiation of the equally liminal Africanist presence, this paper shows how both novels employ liminality as a shared narrative strategy to transport their criticism on White supremacy and anti-Blackness.
APA:
Seuberth, L. (2022). From Melville to Saunders: Using Liminality to Uncover US-American Racial Fantasies. COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 23(1), 41 - 54. https://dx.doi.org/10.5283/copas.357
MLA:
Seuberth, Lisa. "From Melville to Saunders: Using Liminality to Uncover US-American Racial Fantasies." COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 23.1 (2022): 41 - 54.
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