The Ourang-Outang Situation

Abstract

The crime at the heart of Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is the slave insurrection, but the real mystery of this story concerns why this reading is not more obvious. A discussion of the classroom challenges of this interpretation reveals some shortcomings of "structuralist" pedagogies while highlighting the advantages of Sartre's "situational" approach to historical context.

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