Sam Francis: The Whiteness of the Whale
This is a partial index to my Herman Melville blogs, and is necessarily incomplete, as an homage to an author who remains “unpainted to the last.” I am posting it on Memorial Day, 2011, even though HM has been revived as a pacifist, though he buried Malcolm, his teen-age son, an apparent suicide, in a military uniform. And then there is his tribute to Robert E. Lee.
https://clarespark.com/2008/05/03/margoth-vs-robert-e-lee/
https://clarespark.com/2009/09/06/the-hebraic-american-landscape-sublime-or-despotic/
https://clarespark.com/2010/04/04/what-is-truth/
https://clarespark.com/2010/11/27/melville-unpainted-to-the-last/
https://clarespark.com/2010/09/02/spinoza-as-culture-critic/
https://clarespark.com/2010/06/17/whaleness/
https://clarespark.com/2010/06/10/herman-melville-dead-white-male/
https://clarespark.com/2010/09/27/cannibals-negro-jazz-and-servile-revolt/
https://clarespark.com/2011/03/11/review-excerpts-re-hunting-captain-ahab/
https://clarespark.com/2011/05/20/the-mentalist-melville-blake-and-israel/
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