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Jesse Amar

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Jesse Amar

Jesse Amar studies philosophy and literature at the University of Connecticut. He is a lifelong devotee of the works of Herman Melville.

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“Na Dem Dey Hunt Whales”: Onyinye Uwolloh’s New “Moby-Dick” in Nigerian Pidgin

Last year, Nigerian poet Onyinye Miriam Uwolloh published “Ishmael Na My Name,” a long poem in Nigerian Pidgin that retells the story of Moby-Dick (an audio recording…