ABSTRACT

This article takes an object-oriented approach to the analogies between weather events and political events in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) and Frederick Douglass’s ‘The Heroic Slave’ (1853), arguing that marine weathers in these maritime fictions take the measure of the political without being reducible to it. I integrate political-ecological theories of emergency and ‘emergence’ with the analogic poetics of both object-oriented philosophy and critical race studies to show how stormy weather in these texts carries a special charge in articulating an emergent politics of Black democracy.

中文翻译：

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狂风和兵变：《白鲸记》和《英雄奴隶》中的紧急政治和黑人民主

摘要

本文采用面向对象的方法对赫尔曼·梅尔维尔( Herman Melville) 的《白鲸记》 (1851) 和弗雷德里克·道格拉斯 (Frederick Douglass) 的《英雄奴隶》(1853) 中的天气事件和政治事件进行类比，认为这些海事小说中的海洋天气衡量的是政治而不能还原为它。我将紧急和“涌现”的政治生态理论与面向对象哲学和批判种族研究的类比诗学相结合，以展示这些文本中的暴风雨天气如何在阐明黑人民主的涌现政治方面具有特殊的作用。