Oxford University Press; New to this Edition:
New introduction focuses on the novel's elasticity and continued relevance for twenty-first-century readers, with attention to its queerness and its meditations on race, power, and disability
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Naturally. This is how it's read now in university; never mind all that irrelevant stuff like the "colorless allcolor" of the void, immortality vs. existentialism, the validity of Biblical prophesy and other 19th-century philosophical concerns, megalomania, the vain idea of man in opposition to the natural world when one is an inextricable part of that world, etc.
No, no, all that universal stuff is passe and the vaporings of homophobic misogynistic white men. What's really important is the implied queer relationship between Queequeg and Ishmael and Ahab and Starbuck . . . what else but buggery is important during the Pequod's voyage, anyway, you homophobes?
This is what decadence looks like.
We are in the Kali Yuga and it is accelerating.