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"En 1728, le capitaine Charles Johnson publie à Londres un récit atypique. Des équipages pirates, menés par Misson, Caraccioli et Tew, auraient fondé à Madagascar une République du nom de Libertalia. Abolitionniste, égalitaire et pacifique, son modèle prend le contrepied des monarchies dominantes et s'oppose à l'économie de plantation. Surtout, elle aurait, quelques années durant, posé les jalons d'une société multiculturelle inédite. Mais si les mondes pirates européens et les sociétés littorales malgaches ont bien été en relation dans les années 1680 à 1730, aucune trace ne subsiste de cet événement. De plus, les études littéraires anglo-saxonnes attribuent le texte au romancier Daniel Defoe, célèbre auteur de Robinson Crusoé (1719) et faussaire notable. À partir d'archives, de récits de voyage et d'observations de terrain, cet ouvrage reconstitue, pour la première fois, une généalogie critique du mythe et de sa réinterprétation, des empires coloniaux aux mouvements libertaires."

Utopias --- Pirates in literature --- History --- Defoe, Daniel,

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English literature --- Piracy --- Pirates in literature --- Pirates --- History and criticism --- History --- History

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In Pirate Novels Nina Gerassi-Navarro examines an overlooked genre to reveal how history and fiction blend to address important isuses of nation building in nineteenth-century Spanish America. In the figure of the pirate, bold and heroic to some, cruel and criminal to others, she reveals an almost ideal character that came to embody the spirit of emerging nationhood and the violence associated with the struggle to attain it. Beginning with an overview of the history of piracy, Gerassi-Navarro traces the historical icon of the pirate through colonial-era chronicles before exploring a group of nineteenth-century Mexican, Colombian, and Argentine novels. She argues that the authors of these novels, in their reconstructions of the past, were less interested in accurate representations than in using their narratives to discuss the future of their own countries. In reading these pirate narratives as metaphors for the process of nation building in Spanish America, Gerassi-Navarro exposes the conflicting strains of a complex culture attempting to shape that future. She shows how these pirate stories reflect the on-going debates that marked the consolidation of nationhood, as well as the extent to which the narratives of national identity in Spanish America are structured in relation to European cultures, and the ways in which questions of race and gender were addressed.

Fiction --- Spanish-American literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Historical fiction, Spanish American --- Nationalism and literature --- Pirates in literature. --- Spanish American fiction --- History and criticism. --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature

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In Writing Pirates, Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called "Japanese pirates" raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. Travel writings, histories, and fiction of the period jointly narrate pirates and China's Orient in maritime Asia. Wang shows that the late Ming discourses of pirates and the sea were fluid, ambivalent, and dialogical; they simultaneously entailed imperialistic and personal narratives of the "other": foreigners, renegades, migrants, and marginalized authors. At the center of the discourses, early modern concepts of empire, race, and authenticity were intensively negotiated. Connecting late Ming literature to the global maritime world, Writing Pirates expands current discussions of Chinese diaspora and debates on Sinophone language and identity.

Sea in literature. --- Pirates in literature. --- Chinese fiction --- Ming dynasty. --- History and criticism. --- Ocean in literature --- Chinese literature --- Piracy --- History. --- Maritime piracy --- Offenses against public safety