Buell, Lawrence2009-03-081992Buell, Lawrence. 1992. Melville and the question of American decolonization. American Literature 64(2): 215-237.0002-9831http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:2643654Discusses Herman Melville's book <i>Billy Budd</i> concerning its sources and how it unfolds in Melville's life and work. Signs of cultural deference in the biographical record; The publication history of <i>Typee</i>; The Treaty of Versailles certainly did not free this American Israel; Melville's astringency toward republican economic and political institutions in the work of the 1850s; Melville's use of literal and symbolic contrasts; More.en-USbookscriticismMelville, Herman (1819-1891)10.2307/2927833