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Acknowledgements

To Cristina Alsina, Constante González Groba, Michael Jonik, and Bill Phillips, for their dedication to reading this work in earlier stages and providing important questions and comments.

To Marta Segarra, for making possible an academic context where I could develop my own investigation on Herman Melville’s Clarel within the research project “Literatura y comunidades: una visión desde el género” (Plan Nacional de I+D+i [2008-2011], Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, ref. FEM 2011-23808 [2012-2014]). My analysis of community is also indebted to a previous research project led by Marta Segarra: “Representaciones de la comunidad en las escritoras y cineastas de la posmodernidad” (Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica, D.G.I., Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, ref. FFI 2008-03621/FILO [2009-2011]). My gratefulness also goes to Helena González Fernández, for incorporating me as postdoctoral researcher at the Centre Dona i Literatura, Universitat de Barcelona.

To the Melville Society, for many years of encouragement of my work on Clarel, and for allowing me to do research in their Archive in New Bedford, MA, as their Melville Society Archive Fellow in January 2011. To John Bryant, for hosting me during my research visit to New York in February 2011, and to Wyn Kelley, for her generosity during my research trip to Cambridge, MA, in January-February 2011.

To Carme Manuel, for enthusiastically embracing this project. For her endless energy, encouragement, feedback, and flexibility in the process of writing this volume. For making working with her such an easy and pleasant experience, and for a life of important contributions to both American Studies and Melville Studies in Spain, thanks to which volumes such as this one have been possible.

To Tim Marr, for his always enormous generosity and support, on a both personal and academic level, since 2009, and, most specially, during my two research stays in Chapel Hill, NC, in the spring of 2012 and 2013, respectively. For his sharp questions and insightful comments, and for dedicating time he did not have to reading my work at different stages.

A mis amigos y amigas, por su paciencia y comprensión a lo largo de los años.

A mi familia, sin el apoyo y el amor de la cual nada en la vida sería posible.

A Rodrigo Andrés, por muchísimo más de lo que nunca podré expresarle. Por dar origen a mi amor por Melville y por darme libertad para encontrar a mi propio Melville. Por su dedicación a este trabajo en todas y cada una de sus etapas y por estar presente en cada página de él. Por su profesionalidad, amistad y por formar parte de mi vida. Con mucho amor, infinito agradecimiento, y redoblada admiración. De corazón.