Pirate Novels : Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America /

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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 i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerassi-Navarro, Nina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Roman.
Romans.
Zeeroverij.
Zeerovers.
Spaans.
Nationenbildung
Seeräuber > Motiv
Spanish American fiction.
Pirates in literature.
Nationalism and literature.
Historical fiction, Spanish American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Nationalisme et litterature > Amerique latine.
Pirates dans la litterature.
Roman hispano-americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Nationalism and literature > Latin America.
Historical fiction, Spanish American > History and criticism.
Spanish American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Hispanoamerika
Latin America.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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