The Bellipotent as Heterotopia, Total Institution, and Colony: Billy Budd and Other Spaces in Melville's Mediterranean

French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault first defined the con-cept of "Heterotopias" in his 1967 lecture titled "Des Espaces Autres"("Of Other Spaces"). Unlike utopias, heterotopias are real places thatare different from all the sites that they reflect, and the...

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Autor: Andrés González, Rodrigo
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Fecha de publicación:2011
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spelling The Bellipotent as Heterotopia, Total Institution, and Colony: Billy Budd and Other Spaces in Melville's MediterraneanAndrés González, RodrigoMelville, Herman, 1819-1891French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault first defined the con-cept of "Heterotopias" in his 1967 lecture titled "Des Espaces Autres"("Of Other Spaces"). Unlike utopias, heterotopias are real places thatare different from all the sites that they reflect, and they represent a sort ofsimultaneously mythic and real contestation of the space in which we live.Michel Foucault famously concluded that the best example of a heterotopiais a boat: "The ship is the heterotopia par excellence," poetically adding:"In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place ofadventure, and the police take the place of pirates." InBilly Budd, Sailor,Melville gives us theBellipotent, the epitome of a negative heterotopia, wheredreams dry up we say goodbye to theRights of Man espionage takes theplace of adventure, and anxiety is produced although not by pirates but bythe police. This ship is a heterotopia not of illusion but of crisis, not ofcompensation but of deviation. This heterotopia is not a great reserve of theimagination but another real space.Johns Hopkins University Press2021202120112021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion8 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/173129Articles publicats en revistes (Llengües i Literatures Modernes i Estudis Anglesos)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésVersió postprint del document publicat a: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1525-6995Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 2011, vol. 13, num. 3 (October), p. 128-134(c) The Melville Society and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/1731292026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title The Bellipotent as Heterotopia, Total Institution, and Colony: Billy Budd and Other Spaces in Melville's Mediterranean
spellingShingle The Bellipotent as Heterotopia, Total Institution, and Colony: Billy Budd and Other Spaces in Melville's Mediterranean
Andrés González, Rodrigo
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
title_short The Bellipotent as Heterotopia, Total Institution, and Colony: Billy Budd and Other Spaces in Melville's Mediterranean
title_full The Bellipotent as Heterotopia, Total Institution, and Colony: Billy Budd and Other Spaces in Melville's Mediterranean
title_fullStr The Bellipotent as Heterotopia, Total Institution, and Colony: Billy Budd and Other Spaces in Melville's Mediterranean
title_full_unstemmed The Bellipotent as Heterotopia, Total Institution, and Colony: Billy Budd and Other Spaces in Melville's Mediterranean
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dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Andrés González, Rodrigo
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description French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault first defined the con-cept of "Heterotopias" in his 1967 lecture titled "Des Espaces Autres"("Of Other Spaces"). Unlike utopias, heterotopias are real places thatare different from all the sites that they reflect, and they represent a sort ofsimultaneously mythic and real contestation of the space in which we live.Michel Foucault famously concluded that the best example of a heterotopiais a boat: "The ship is the heterotopia par excellence," poetically adding:"In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place ofadventure, and the police take the place of pirates." InBilly Budd, Sailor,Melville gives us theBellipotent, the epitome of a negative heterotopia, wheredreams dry up we say goodbye to theRights of Man espionage takes theplace of adventure, and anxiety is produced although not by pirates but bythe police. This ship is a heterotopia not of illusion but of crisis, not ofcompensation but of deviation. This heterotopia is not a great reserve of theimagination but another real space.
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