MLA Abstracts for the PSA Panel

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Research Article| November 01 2019 MLA Abstracts for the PSA Panel The Edgar Allan Poe Review (2019) 20 (2): 339–342. https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.20.2.0339 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation MLA Abstracts for the PSA Panel. The Edgar Allan Poe Review 1 November 2019; 20 (2): 339–342. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/edgallpoerev.20.2.0339 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Edgar Allan Poe Review Search Advanced Search While Edgar Allan Poe’s transatlanticism has been richly documented, the peculiar presence of sinister Malay figures amid the specters of rebellion and chaos in Poe’s sea tales—from “MS. Found in a Bottle” to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym—reminds us of equally important transpacific contexts that played key roles in shaping American cosmopolitan culture. In fact, Poe’s figuration of transpacific archipelagoes and their people underscores the complexities of nineteenth-century Orientalism and the myriad of historical moments where people, empire, and commodities connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.Poe’s sea tales—while set abroad—suggest in form and content the significance of the figure of the Malay sailor in his stories and an evolving American frontier cosmopolitanism that both looked to its forebears (Old World Europe and its West Asian influences) while also considering the South Pacific and East Asia as its future mainstay of expansion, labor, and culture. Texts of travel... Issue Section: Features You do not currently have access to this content.