Moby-Dick

Thematic trail

Colonial Contact

Pacific travel, racialized description, empire, conversion language, and global labor.

EmpireRace

1 chapter in narrative order

  1. Chapter 48 The First Lowering

    The first whale chase reveals the danger of the work and the hidden presence of Ahab's private boat crew.

Related lenses

Trail

Bodies and Vulnerability

1 shared chapter

 Trail

Race, Empire, and the Global Crew

1 shared chapter

 Trail

Violence and Mercy

1 shared chapter

 Trail

Whaling Labor

1 shared chapter

 Theme

Agency

1 shared chapter

 Character

Fedallah

1 shared chapter