Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:52:29 -0400
Subject: Re: Ship narratives


By the way, Gilroy discusses the importance of the ship as a chronotope in
the Black Atlantic. Jamil

At 10:51 AM 8/30/00 -0400, you wrote:
>James Banks Thorpe, "Great Bear of Arkansas (reprinted in Blair's -Native 
>American Humor- anthology).  If you want to go in this direction, 
>Melville's -The Confidence man- or -Moby Dick-, of course, gather that 
>great "Aristarchus Clootz confederacy" of humanity on board ship.
>
>Chandos
>
>
>At 01:18 PM 08/29/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Great Bear of Arkansas.  I don't know the author but it's an old American
>>short story (early 19th century, I believe) found in most anthologies.
>>It's a metanarrative that involves a bunch of folks on a steamboat
>>listening to some guy tell a story about the great bear of Arkansas.  More
>>than the story itself, what I've always found interesting are the
>>characters who occupy this ship and how the ship becomes a symbol of the
>>national collective (brought together by a story/literature).
>
>
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