The Naturalization of Orientalism in Herman Melville&apos;s <i>Mardi</i>: Whitewashing <i>Arabian Nights</i>?

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Keywords: Melville, Mardi , Arabian Nights , Orientalism, whitewashing, naturalization

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[1] Al-Musawi, Muhsin. (2005). “Scheherazade's Nonverbal Narratives”. Journal of Arabic Literature, 36 (3), 338–362.

[2] Brook, Tom. (2015, October, 6). The Practice Of Casting White Actors In Non-White Roles Is Still Prevalent In Hollywood—Despite Widespread Condemnation And Protest. Why Does It Continue? www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151006-when-white-actors-play-other-races , accessed Nov. 13, 2019.

[3] Burton, R. Francis. (1885/1886). The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments. (v.03) [S.l.]: Printed by the Burton Ethnological Society for members only. www.archive.org/stream/plainliteraltran03burtuoft/plainliteraltran03burtuoft_djvu.t, accessed Oct. 11, 2018.

[4] Davis, Merrell. (1942). “Flower Symbolism in Mardi“. Modern Language Quarterly, 2, 625–638.

[5] Despland, Michel. (2004). “Two Ways of Articulating Outsider's Knowledge of Polynesian Culture and Religion: Melville's Typee and Mardi“. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 16, (2), 105–121.

[6] Dyer, Richard. (2005). White Privilege: Essential Readings on The Other Side of Racism. (P. Rothenburg Ed.) (2nd ed.). New York: Worth Publications.

[7] Fishburn, Evelyn. (2004). “Traces of the Thousand and One Nights in Borges”. Middle Eastern Literatures, 7 (2), 143 158.

[8] Goddard, Tom. (2017). “'Thy Placeless Power’: Melville, Mobility, and the Poetics of Placelessness.” Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, 93, 247–259.

[9] Heneghan, Bridget. (2007). Whitewashing America: Material culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination. Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.

[10] Khan, Jalal Uddin. (2015). Readings in Oriental Literature: Arabian, Indian, and Islamic. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

[11] Marr, Timothy. (2006). The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism. New York: Cambridge University Press.

[12] Marzolph, Ulrich et al. (2004). The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC- CLIO.

[13] Melville, Herman. (1978). Mardi. 1970. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library.

[14] Miller, James. (1962). A Reader's Guide to Herman Melville. New York: The Noonday Press.

[15] Obenzinger, Hilton. (2010). “Melville Returns to Jerusalem”. Jerusalem Quarterly. Autumn, 43, 3–39.

[16] Said, Edward. (1988). Crisis [in Orientalism]. In D. Lodge (Ed.), Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. New York: Longman.

[17] Said, Edward. (2003). Orientalism. London: Penguin Books Ltd.

[18] Saunders, Frances S. (1999). Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War. London: Granta Books.

[19] Thompson, Lawrance. (1952). Melville's Quarrel with God. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

[20] Tierney, Dolores. (2017, September 11). “From Breakfast at Tiffany's to Hellboy: The ongoing problem of Hollywood ‘whitewashing‘”. The Independent. www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/breakfast-at-tiffany-hellboy-hollywood-whitewashing-a7932581.html, accessed Nov. 13, 2019.

[21] Wagner, Ole. (2009). Racial attitudes in Melville's “Benito Cereno” and Twain's “Huckleberry Finn”. Norderstedt: GRIN Publishing.

[22] Wing, Jennifer. (2008). “Resisting the Vortex: Abjection in the Early Works of Herman Melville”. (Doctoral Dissertation). scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/29, accessed May 12, 2018.