From the black Atlantic to the bleak Pacific: Re-reading "Benito Cereno".

The opening description of the setting is highly significant: Melville displaces the island of Santa María, moving it from off the coast of central Chile “toward the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili.” 31 Will Slocombe interprets this move as perhaps “a sign for the continued southwards expansion into Mapuche territories that was ongoing at the t

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