{"product_id":"ahab-unbound","title":"Ahab Unbound","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab is perennially seen as the paradigm of a controlling, tyrannical agent. \u003ci\u003eAhab Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e leaves his position as a Cold War icon behind, recasting him as a contingent figure, transformed by his environment—by chemistry, electromagnetism, entomology, meteorology, diet, illness, pain, trauma, and neurons firing—in ways that unexpectedly force us to see him as worthy of our empathy and our compassion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In sixteen essays by leading scholars, \u003ci\u003eAhab Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e advances an urgent inquiry into Melville’s emergence as a center of gravity for materialist work, reframing his infamous whaling captain in terms of pressing conversations in animal studies, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, environmental humanities, medical humanities, political theory, and posthumanism. By taking Ahab as a focal point, we gather and give shape to the multitude of ways that materialism produces criticism in our current moment. Collectively, these readings challenge our thinking about the boundaries of both persons and nations, along with the racist and environmental violence caused by categories like the person and the human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAhab Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e makes a compelling case for both the vitality of materialist inquiry and the continued resonance of Melville’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: Branka Arsić, Columbia U; Christopher Castiglia, Pennsylvania State U; Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt U; Christian P. Haines, Pennsylvania State U; Bonnie Honig, Brown U; Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt U; Pilar Martínez Benedí, U of L’Aquila, Italy; Steve Mentz, St. John’s College; John Modern, Franklin and Marshall College; Mark D. Noble, Georgia State U; Samuel Otter, U of California, Berkeley; Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College; Ralph James Savarese, Grinnell College; Russell Sbriglia, Seton Hall U; Michael D. Snediker, U of Houston; Matthew A. Taylor, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ivy Wilson, Northwestern U.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54218247995736,"sku":"9781517907549","price":105.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781517907549__676ef296076bd.jpg?v=1741157652","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ahab-unbound","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}