Actually, The Whale

Rockwell Kent illustration of Moby Dick from the 1930 trade edition, as sold by MFLibra I’m trying to remember what hit me this morning that made me wonder about Moby Dick told from the perspective of the whale, but it’s something that’s come up before. Google feels like it’s rapidly losing its credibility for making factual statements, but if there’s one thing this blog is about, it’s subjectivity, and me trying to overcome the limitations of my knowledge. So I can say that a quick search of the concept of Moby Dick: Whale POV shows it’s pretty prevalent, though I’ve only found a few attempts: Alison Baird’s 1999 YA [sic] novel, White As The Waves, sounds like a companion to Moby Dick that, for all its research-based extrapolations on whale culture, still centers its conflict on Ahab. The idea that Ahab is the whale’s nemesis, when he’s not even the first human he’s killed this week, feels like an anthropocentric narrative trap. A different-but-similar, and much more widely known…

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