Call Me Ishmaelle (eBook)

Moby Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressing female sailor

Xiaolu Guo (Autor)

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2025
Vintage Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5299-3000-9 (ISBN)

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Call Me Ishmaelle reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville s Moby Dick from a female perspective.'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare A clever and original skewering of a classic i1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph, leaves to find work as a sailor. Abandoned and desperate for a life at sea, Ishmaelle disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York.As the American Civil War breaks out in 1861, Ishmaelle boards the Nimrod, a whaling ship led by the obsessive Captain Seneca, a Black free man of heroic stature who is haunted by a tragic past. Here, she finds protectors in Polynesian harpooner, Kauri, and Taoist monk, Muzi, whose readings of the I-Ching guide their quest.Through the bloody male violence of whaling, and the unveiling of her feminine identity, Ishmaelle realises there is a mysterious bond between herself and the mythical white whale, Moby Dick. Xiaolu Guo has crafted a dramatically different, feminist narrative that stands alongside the original while offering a powerful exploration of nature, gender and human purpose.Perfect for fans Madeline Miller, Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-5299-3000-6 / 1529930006
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5299-3000-9 / 9781529930009