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This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, pirates asked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.
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Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865
2020, Springer Nature
3030436233 9783030436230
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Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865
Aug 29, 2020, Palgrave Macmillan
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3030436225 9783030436223
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Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865
2020, Springer International Publishing AG
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303043625X 9783030436254
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