Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves

Piracy and Personhood in American Literature

Sharada Balachandran Orihuela (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2018
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-4091-4 (ISBN)

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In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of nautical pirates and robbery in international waters to post-revolutionary counterfeiting, transnational slave escape, and the illegal trade of cotton across the Americas during the Civil War. Weaving together close readings of American, Chicano, and African American literature with political theory, the author shows that piracy, when represented through literature, has imagined more inclusive and democratic communities than were then possible in reality. The author shows that these subjects are not taking part in unlawful acts only for economic gain. Rather, Balachandran Orihuela argues that piracy might, surprisingly, have served as a public good, representing a form of transnational belonging that transcends membership in any one nation-state while also functioning as a surrogate to citizenship through the ownership of property. These transnational and transactional forms of social and economic life allow for a better understanding the foundational importance of property ownership and its role in the creation of citizenship.

Sharada Balachandran Orihuela is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland.

Erscheinungsdatum	26.04.2018
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 233 mm
Gewicht	517 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4696-4091-0 / 1469640910
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-4091-4 / 9781469640914
Zustand	Neuware