Blood and Ink
The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary History
Seiten
2023
University of Massachusetts Press (Verlag)
978-1-62534-741-1 (ISBN)
University of Massachusetts Press (Verlag)
978-1-62534-741-1 (ISBN)
An estimated seven hundred American citizens, sailors, and naval officers were taken captive over the course of the Barbary Crises (1784-1815), and this overseas danger threatened to grow and irreparably harm the young republic. This book reconstructs the largely forgotten influence of these early American conflicts with North Africa.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated seven hundred American citizens, sailors, and naval officers were taken captive over the course of the Barbary Crises (1784–1815), and this overseas danger threatened to grow and irreparably harm the young republic. Blood and Ink reconstructs the largely forgotten influence of these early American conflicts with North Africa on notions of publicity, print culture, and racial and national identity from independence to the Civil War. Exploring the extensive archive of texts inspired by the conflicts—from captivity narratives, novels, plays, and poems to broadsides, travel narratives, children’s literature, newspaper articles, and visual ephemera—Jacob Crane connects anxieties surrounding North African piracy and white slavery to both the development of American abolitionism and representations of transatlantic African and Jewish identities in the early national and antebellum periods.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated seven hundred American citizens, sailors, and naval officers were taken captive over the course of the Barbary Crises (1784–1815), and this overseas danger threatened to grow and irreparably harm the young republic. Blood and Ink reconstructs the largely forgotten influence of these early American conflicts with North Africa on notions of publicity, print culture, and racial and national identity from independence to the Civil War. Exploring the extensive archive of texts inspired by the conflicts—from captivity narratives, novels, plays, and poems to broadsides, travel narratives, children’s literature, newspaper articles, and visual ephemera—Jacob Crane connects anxieties surrounding North African piracy and white slavery to both the development of American abolitionism and representations of transatlantic African and Jewish identities in the early national and antebellum periods.
Jacob Crane is associate professor of English and media studies at Bentley University.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Appealing to the Nation
Part One: Of Pirates and Print
Chapter One
The Patriot and the Sable Bard
Chapter Two
Barbary(an) Invasions
Part Two: The Barbary and the Jewish Atlantic
Chapter Three
“A Vague Resemblance to Something Seen Elsewhere”
Chapter Four
Performing Diaspora in Noah’s Travels
Part Three: The Long Shadow of the Barbary
Chapter Five
“The Advantage of a Whip-Lecture”
Chapter Six
Peter Parley in Tripoli
Coda: Selim’s Archive Fever
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 9 illustrations, 1 table |
| Verlagsort | Massachusetts |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-62534-741-3 / 1625347413 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-62534-741-1 / 9781625347411 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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