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MARITIME LITERATURE AND CULTURE CRISIS AND LE...

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  piratesasked questions about might and right at
critical moments of Atlantic history.

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