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Evoking Melville’s fascination with the fluidity of categories like savagery and civilization, the image of Tupai Cupa fittingly introduces \"Before Moby-Dick: International Controversy over Melville,\" a new section that documents the ferocity of religions, political, and sexual hostility toward Melville in reaction to his early books, beginning with Typee in 1846.    The image of Tupai Cupa also evokes Melville’s interest in the mystery of self-identity and the possibility of knowing another person’s \"queenly personality\" (Chapter 119). That theme (focused on Melville, Ishmael, and Ahab) is pursued in \"A Handful of Critical Challenges,\" from Walter E. Bezanson’s classic centennial study through Harrison Hayford’s meditation on \"Loomings\" and recent essays by Camille Paglia and John Wenke.    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