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505 0 a| Introduction -- Part I. The problem of piracy in antebellum America. America's Blackbeard : piracy and colonial life -- Counterfeit states : bootleg currency and postrevolutionary American property -- Part II. The afterlife of piracy and the problem of citizenship. The black market : property, freedom, and fugitivity in antebellum life -- Unsettling subjects : citizenship and squatting in historical romances of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands -- Queen cotton : smuggling and the exigencies of citizenship during the Civil War -- Afterword : pirates, terrorists, narcotraffickers.;

520 a| "In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of nautical pirates and robbery in international waters to post-revolutionary counterfeiting, transnational slave escape, and the illegal trade of cotton across the Americas during the Civil War. Weaving together close readings of American, Chicano, and African American literature with political theory, the author shows that piracy, when represented through literature, has imagined more inclusive and democratic communities than were then possible in reality"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Fugitives, smugglers, and thieves : piracy and personhood in American literature / Sharada Balachandran Orihuela.

Author/creator	Balachandran Orihuela, Sharada author.
Format	Book
Publication	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Description	xi, 234 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects	American literature--History and criticism. Pirates in literature. Fugitives from justice in literature.

Contents	Introduction -- Part I. The problem of piracy in antebellum America. America's Blackbeard : piracy and colonial life -- Counterfeit states : bootleg currency and postrevolutionary American property -- Part II. The afterlife of piracy and the problem of citizenship. The black market : property, freedom, and fugitivity in antebellum life -- Unsettling subjects : citizenship and squatting in historical romances of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands -- Queen cotton : smuggling and the exigencies of citizenship during the Civil War -- Afterword : pirates, terrorists, narcotraffickers.
Abstract	"In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. Balachandran Orihuela defines piracy expansively, from the familiar concept of nautical pirates and robbery in international waters to post-revolutionary counterfeiting, transnational slave escape, and the illegal trade of cotton across the Americas during the Civil War. Weaving together close readings of American, Chicano, and African American literature with political theory, the author shows that piracy, when represented through literature, has imagined more inclusive and democratic communities than were then possible in reality"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-223) and index.
Genre/form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN	2017044538
ISBN	9781469640914 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN	1469640910 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN	9781469640921 paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBN	1469640929 paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBN	electronic book

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