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Xiaolu Guo & Philip Hoare: Call Me Ishmaelle

London Review Bookshop Podcast

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Ishmael’s Gender Reveal and 19th-Century Women Sailors

Guo discusses making Ishmael female, historical precedents of women disguising as men at sea, and the narrative consequences.

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