Pirate Novels : Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America /
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 i...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
1999.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Piracy in Spanish America: a history
- The sea monsters of the colonial era
- Defining national identities through piracy
- Nation building and the historical novel
- The force of melodrama.