Ishmael’s Night of Rest and Relaxation

dc.bibliographicCitation.article	5
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume	71
dc.contributor.author	Jordan, Rieke
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-27T08:02:57Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-27T08:02:57Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.description.abstract	My article on Moby-Dick explores the juxtaposition of self and other, alienation and community, friendship and leisure. By way of the book’s famous fourth chapter, “The Counterpane,” I argue that repose, conceived as a way of spending time, exposes some of the contradictions of the capitalist dictum of industriousness. The quilt that features so prominently in the chapter is to be underestood as a figure of resting and relaxing, which accumulates a patchwork of additional meanings through Ishmael’s contradictory experiences during the night at the Spouter-Inn with Queequeg.
dc.identifier.doi	10.18422/71-05
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3253
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publishedIn	Göttingen
dc.publisher	Göttingen University Press
dc.relation.issn	2750-7327
dc.relation.journal	New American Studies Journal
dc.relation.journalalt	A Forum
dc.rights	L::CC BY-SA 4.0
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:810
dc.subject.field	americanstudies
dc.subject.field	literarystudies
dc.title	Ishmael’s Night of Rest and Relaxation
dc.type	article
dc.type.version	publishedVersion
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