The Prosthetic Arts of Moby-Dick offers the first book-length study of how disability shapes one of the world's most iconic novels. Rather than see Ahab's lost limb as a deficiency, it explores the way that his prosthesis becomes both a means to power and a key figure for understanding the role that Islamic cultures plays in the novel's plot and form. Blake's book ably appraises Melville's meditations on the value of psychological and racial aggrievement in the expression of American authoritarian power. It charts how Melville rendered the 'thump' of traumatic dismemberment into a prosthetic matrix for incorporating others into the violent extension of individual retribution and national power. The powerful readings of Fedallah and his mysterious gazes reembody him into a crucial prosthesis for Ahab, but also a phantom narrator for Ishmael and Melville, in ways that pilot new insights into how Moby-Dick remains premised on geo-political dispossession of Asians and Muslims. Blake's timely analysis of Melville's mediations of mutilated bodies makes this book a prophecy for readers to remember in today's vindictive times.