Anonymous once took a class from Scott Newton in which he read Melville's lesser-known but savagely complicated short-story, Benito Cereno, discovering that national identities were born less of patriotic spectacle and rights writ-large than the psychic remainders of diasporan homelessness navigated between the narrow straights of economic and social abuse with craft lain with the planks and chains of a collectively and morally racialized unconscious.
Anonymous once took a class from Scott Newton in which he read Melville's lesser-known but savagely complicated short-story, Benito Cereno, discovering that national identities were born less of patriotic spectacle and rights writ-large than the psychic remainders of diasporan homelessness navigated between the narrow straights of economic and social abuse with craft lain with the planks and chains of a collectively and morally racialized unconscious.
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