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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gerassi-Navarro, Nina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.
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.