Herman Melville’s Moby Dick tells the story of Captain Ahab leading the whaling ship Pequod on a quest for revenge against the white whale Moby Dick through the perspective of Ishmael.This paper takes Moby Dick as th...Herman Melville’s Moby Dick tells the story of Captain Ahab leading the whaling ship Pequod on a quest for revenge against the white whale Moby Dick through the perspective of Ishmael.This paper takes Moby Dick as the research object and focuses on the whaling ship Pequod in particular.By applying the theory of neo-tribalism proposed by Michel Maffesoli,this paper analyzes how the neo-tribe is formed by the crew members of Pequod during the voyage and how it is bonded together by Ahab’s obsession with revenge.It pays attention to the collective resonance of the crew’s“undirected”being-together and analyzes the role of the whaling ship as a special space in this process,finally unveiling the underlying forces and vitalism that work behind neo-tribalism.展开更多
基金Supported by the Beijing Social Science Fund Project“A Study of Imperial Consciousness in Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century American Novels”(Project No.20WXB005).
文摘Herman Melville’s Moby Dick tells the story of Captain Ahab leading the whaling ship Pequod on a quest for revenge against the white whale Moby Dick through the perspective of Ishmael.This paper takes Moby Dick as the research object and focuses on the whaling ship Pequod in particular.By applying the theory of neo-tribalism proposed by Michel Maffesoli,this paper analyzes how the neo-tribe is formed by the crew members of Pequod during the voyage and how it is bonded together by Ahab’s obsession with revenge.It pays attention to the collective resonance of the crew’s“undirected”being-together and analyzes the role of the whaling ship as a special space in this process,finally unveiling the underlying forces and vitalism that work behind neo-tribalism.
