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; or, The Whale
linked to: Moby-Dick
genreContext American whaling novel
governedBy Queequeg’s father
governedByTitle king
hasAlternativeDescription Rokovoko (variant spelling in some editions)
linked to: Rokovoko
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 the fictional world of Moby-Dick
linked to: Moby-Dick
publicationYearOfFirstAppearance 1851
region South Seas
topography island

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Queequeg homeIsland Kokovoko