Pirate Novels
Subtitle: Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780822323600
Subjects: American history; Spanish American fiction; Latin American Novel And Short Story; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; Literature: Classics; Latin America; Caribbean & Latin American; Latin American Studies; Literary Studies/American Lite; Postcolonial Studies; American - Hispanic American; 19th century; Historical fiction, Spanish Am; Historical fiction, Spanish American; History and criticism; Pirates in literature
First sentence: On his return from Hispaniola, in a letter dated November 5, 1523, Diego Colon, son of Christopher Columbus, wrote King Charles I of Spain complaining about the number of corsairs roaming the seas trying to rob the Crown of its well-deserved and legitimate riches.