Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean: 1550-1810

ISBN-13: 9781032094793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 296 str.

Mario Klarer

Opis

Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean exlores the early modern genre of Barbary Coast captivity narratives. This collection is divided into three parts, in the first two the chapters use specifically selected narratives as case studies to explore the genres of narrating captivity in Part One and authenticity and fiction in c

Spis treści

Lists of figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Mario Klarer

Part 1 Labor and Law

1. Trading Identities: Balthasar Sturmer’s Verzeichnis der Reise (1558) and the Making of the European Barbary Captivity Narrative

Mario Klarer

2. Unkind Dealings: English Captivity Narratives, Commercial Transformation, and the Economy of Unfree Labor in the Early Modern Period

Daniel Vitkus

3. Ambivalences of Recognition: The Position of the Barbary Corsairs in Early Modern International Law and International Politics

Walter Rech

4. "Free, Unfree, Captive, Slave:" António de Saldanha, a Late Sixteenth-Century Captive in Marrakesh

Peter Mark

　

Part 2 Home and Hybridity

5. "Renegades:" Converts to Islam in American Barbary Captivity Narratives of the 1790s

Anna Diamantouli

6. Identity Crises of Homecomers from the Barbary Coast

Robert Spindler

7. "Arab Speculators:" States and Ransom Slavery in the Western Sahara　

Christine E. Sears

　

Part 3 Diplomacy and Deliverance

8. Michael Heberer: A Prisoner in the Ottoman Navy

Robert Rebitsch

9. Piracy, Diplomacy, and Cultural Circulations in the Mediterranean

Khalid Bekkaoui

10. A Comparison of Confraternity Models in the "Redemption of Slaves" in Europe: The Broederschap der alderheylighste Dryvuldigheyt of Brugge/Bruges and the Scuola della Santissima Trinità of Venice

Andrea Pelizza　

Part 4 Oppositions and Otherness

11. A Huguenot Captive in ‘Uthman Dey’s Court: Histoire chronologique du royaume de Tripoly (1685) and Its Author

Gillian Weiss

12. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa: Clashing Portraits of a Corsair-King

Diana de Armas Wilson

13. Two Arabic Accounts of Captivity in Malta: Texts and Contexts

Nabil Matar

O autorze

Mario Klarer is a professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. He is the author of several Routledge textbooks, monographs on literature and the visual arts as well as literary utopias. His forthcoming publications include a primary text anthology of Barbary Coast captivity narratives and a digital edition of the Ambraser Heldenbuch.