Native America in The Confidence-Man: quite an original satire and scene.

Leviathan | October 1, 2006| | Copyright

The protagonist in The Confidence-Man symbolically enacts a Native American desire for victory over whites. Fragmentary Amerindian references in the novel are well-known, among them the celebrated "Indian-hating" section, the reference to Manco Capac, the asylum for the Seminole, the Goneril episode, and the herb-doctor. But, in fact, the entire work is imbued with an Amerindian dimension, both thematically and structurally. Although pinning down Melville's confidence man (especially in the person of the cosmopolitan) is risky business, I argue that when seen in Native ...

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