Kokovoko

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Kokovoko is the fictional, remote South Pacific island homeland of Queequeg in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."

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Kokovoko canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional island
fictional location
literary setting
appearsIn Moby-Dick
appearsInWorkBy Herman Melville
associatedWithTheme cross-cultural encounter
cultural otherness
exoticism
countryOfCitizenship Queequeg
countryOfOriginOfWork United States (via Melville’s authorship)
createdBy Herman Melville
cultureType Polynesian-inspired
describedAs remote
savage
describedIn narration by Ishmael
firstPublishedInWork Moby-Dick
surface form: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
genreContext American whaling novel
governedBy Queequeg’s father
governedByTitle king
hasAlternativeDescription Rokovoko
surface form: Rokovoko (variant spelling in some editions)
hasFictionalEthnonym Kokovokans
hasFictionalStatus nonexistent in the real world
hasInhabitants Polynesian islanders
hasNotableResident Queequeg
hasRoleInPlot origin of Queequeg’s royal lineage
source of Queequeg’s backstory
languageOfWorkOrName English (narrative description)
literaryTradition 19th-century American literature
locatedIn South Pacific Ocean
mediumOfAppearance novel
narrativeFunction background for Queequeg’s character
ocean Pacific Ocean
partOf Moby-Dick
surface form: the fictional world of Moby-Dick
publicationYearOfFirstAppearance 1851
region South Seas
topography island

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Queequeg homeIsland Kokovoko