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| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Moby-Dick and the American Canon | 1 |
| Posthumanist Theory and Canon Formation | 2 | |
| A Genealogical History of the Reception of Moby-Dick, 1850-1945 | 12 | |
| The New Americanist "Field-Imaginary" and the Vietnam War | 23 | |
| The New Americanists and Moby-Dick | 31 | |
| The Limits of the New Americanist Discourse | 36 | |
| 2 | Metaphysics and Spatial Form: Melville's Critique of Speculative Philosophy and Fiction | 43 |
| Tragic Vision and Metaphysics | 47 | |
| Tragic Vision and Moby-Dick | 54 | |
| Melville's Errant Measure: The Testimony of the Fiction Following Moby-Dick | 61 | |
| 3 | The Errant Art of Moby-Dick | 75 |
| The Question of Ishmael's Name | 75 | |
| Ishmael's Reading of Father Mapple's Reading of the Jonah Text | 87 | |
| The Centered Circle, the Imperial Gaze, and Abasement | 114 | |
| The American Adam and the Naming of the White Whale | 121 | |
| Ishmael and the Unnaming of Moby Dick | 127 | |
| Ishmael, Theory, and Practice | 131 | |
| The Self as Orphan | 148 | |
| Ishmael and Negative Capability | 156 | |
| Representation and Errancy: The Art of Narration | 166 | |
| Cetology and Discipline | 185 | |
| Political Economy in Moby-Dick: Toward a Counterhegemony | 204 | |
| Repetition and the Indissoluble Continuum of Being: Melville's Polis | 226 | |
| Moby-Dick as Diabolic Book | 232 | |
| The Question of Ishmael's Name: A Repetition | 245 | |
| The Struggle to Appropriate Moby-Dick: Indeterminacy and Positionality | 247 | |
| 4 | Moby-Dick and the Contemporary American Occasion | 250 |
| The "Vietnam Syndrome" | 250 | |
| Fredric Jameson and Frank Lentricchia: Reading Michael Herr's Dispatches | 252 | |
| The Postmodernity of the Vietnam War | 257 | |
| Moby-Dick and the Vietnam War | 266 | |
| Notes | 279 | |
| Bibliography | 353 | |
| Index | 365 |
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