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Pirate Novels - Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America (Paperback)
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Pirate Novels - Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America (Paperback)
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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.
Providing new readings of the cultural and political paradigms
that marked the literary production of nineteenth-century Spanish
America, "Pirate Novels" uniquely expands the range of texts
usually examined in the study of nation-building. It will interest
literary scholars generally as well as those engaged in Latin
American, colonial, and postcolonial studies.
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