Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves
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African Americans
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Border states
Borderlands
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Charles Brockden Brown
citizenship
counterfeiting
early American novel
Eligio Ancona
Eliza McHatton Ripley
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Frederick Douglass
fugitives
historical romance
illegal trade
James Fenimore Cooper
Loreta Janeta Velazquez
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Martin Delany
Mexican American War
Mexican Americans
Mexicans in the Southwest
piracy
Property
property of slaves
race relations
romance
slave narratives
slavery
smuggling
Southern states
squatting
Stephen Burroughs
US Civil War
US Revolutionary War
westward expansion
whiteness
William Gilmore Simms
women's autobiography
Product details
- ISBN 9781469640921
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2018
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. The author shows that these subjects are not taking part in unlawful acts only for economic gain. Rather, Balachandran Orihuela argues that piracy might, surprisingly, have served as a public good, representing a form of transnational belonging that transcends membership in any one nation-state while also functioning as a surrogate to citizenship through the ownership of property. These transnational and transactional forms of social and economic life allow for a better understanding the foundational importance of property ownership and its role in the creation of citizenship.
Sharada Balachandran Orihuela is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland.
