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Suggestions for Further Reading
Cassuto, Leonard. "What an object he would have made of me!: Tattooing and the Racial Freak in Melville's Typee." In Rosemarie Garland Thomson, ed. Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
Breitwieser, Mitchell. "False Sympathy in Melville's Typee." In Myra Jehlen, ed. Herman Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994.
Herbert, T. Walter, Jr. Marquesan Encounters: Melville and the Meaning of Civilization. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Otter, Samuel. "Race in Typee and White Jacket." In Robert Levine, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Rowe, John Carlos. "Melville's Typee: U.S. Imperialism at Home and Abroad." In Donald E. Pease, ed. National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
Schueller, Malini Johar. "Indians, Polynesians, and Empire Making: the Case of Herman Melville." In Lee Quinby, ed. Genealogy and Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Stern, Milton R. Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Typee. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co, 1982.
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