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Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865

ISBN: 3030436225 ;ISBN: 9783030436223 ;EISBN: 3030436233 ;EISBN: 9783030436230 ;OCLC: 1237399687

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Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865
Author: Ganser, Alexandra
Subjects: 1QSAN North Atlantic ; Adventure ; Adventure / action fiction ; American literature ; American studies ; American style / tradition comic books ; Amerikanistik ; Atlantic ; Atlantic Ocean ; Atlantik ; Biography and non-fiction prose ; Biography, Literature and Literary studies ; Book Industry Communication ; Commercial law ; Company, commercial & competition law ; Comparative literature studies ; Cultural studies ; Fiction & related items ; Fiction and Related items ; Fiction: special features ; Geographical Qualifiers ; Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: genres ; Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions ; Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Superheroes and super-villains ; Graphic novels ; Graphic novels, Comic books, Manga, Cartoons ; Graphic novels: superheroes & super-villains ; Historical adventure ; Historical adventure fiction ; Historical fiction ; History of literature ; Kulturwissenschaft ; Law ; Laws of Specific jurisdictions ; legitimacy ; Legitimität ; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers ; Literary studies: general ; Literatur ; literature ; Literature & literary studies ; Literature: history & criticism ; Literature: history and criticism ; Literaturgeschichte ; LNCB5 Shipping law ; North America ; North America (USA and Canada) ; Oceans & seas ; Oceans and seas ; Other geographical groupings, oceans & seas ; Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc ; piracy ; Piraten ; Pirates in literature ; Place qualifiers ; Prose: non-fiction ; Short stories ; The Americas ; thema EDItEUR ; United States of America, USA ; USA ; Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft ; War & combat fiction ; War, combat and military adventure fiction ; ÖFOS 2012
Description: The book traces the construction and function of the pirate in transatlantic American literature from the late 17th century to the Civil War, exploring in what ways the cultural imaginary teased out the pirate’s ambivalent potential as a figure of both identification and Othering, and how it has been used to negotiate ideas of legitimacy. The study recasts piracy as a discursive category moving in a continuum between the propagation of (post-)colonial adventure and accumulation on the one hand and critical commentary on exploitation and oppression on the other. Reading piracy narratives as symptomatic of various crisis scenarios in the US context, the book examines how the pirate was imbued with (de)legitimatory meaning during such periods in both elite and popular texts. Die Studie zeichnet die Konstruktion und Funktion des Piraten in der transatlantisch-amerikanischen Erzählliteratur vom späten 17. Jahrhundert bis zum Sezessionskrieg nach und untersucht, wie das ambivalente Potential der Figur zwischen Identifikation und Alterisierung genutzt wurde, um Vorstellungen von Legitimität und Macht zur Verhandlung zu stellen. Das Buch begreift Piraterie als diskursive Kategorie im Kontinuum zwischen Propagierung (post-)kolonialen Abenteuers und Akkumulation einerseits und kritischem Kommentar zu Ausbeutung und Unterdrückung andererseits. Piratenerzählungen werden als symptomatisch im Kontext verschiedener kolonialer und nationaler Krisenszenarien verstanden, die u.a. Sklaverei, Geschlecht oder Identität zur Diskussion stellen.
Related Titles: Maritime Literature and Culture
Publisher: Cham: Springer International Publishing AG
Creation Date: 2020
Format: 302
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 3030436225
ISBN: 9783030436223
EISBN: 3030436233
EISBN: 9783030436230
OCLC: 1237399687
Source: OAPEN
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books

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Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865

ISBN: 3030436225 ;ISBN: 9783030436223 ;EISBN: 3030436233 ;EISBN: 9783030436230 ;OCLC: 1237399687

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