Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves

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Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves: Piracy and Personhood in American Literature

Author	Sharada Balachandran Orihuela
Language	English
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	University of North Carolina Press
Publication date	2018
Pages	248
ISBN	978-1-4696-4092-1

Fugitives, Smugglers, and Thieves: Piracy and Personhood in American Literature is the debut book by Mexican academic Sharada Balachandran Orihuela. It was published by University of North Carolina Press in 2018. It explores piracy and illegal trade in American literature as a form of self-representation by colonial subjects facing abjection due to exclusionary citizenship and property laws.

Orihuela, an Indian Mexican, was born in Mexico to Rosamaria Orihuela and Gopalan Balachandran.^[1] She is the granddaughter of civil servant P. V. Gopalan, the cousin of lawyer Maya Harris and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, and the niece of biomedical scientist Shyamala Gopalan, who influenced her intellectual trajectory in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.^[2]^[3]

In the book, Balachandran Orihuela explores piracy and illegal trade in American literature. The exclusionary concepts of citizenship resulting in the social, political, and economic isolation of pirates impacts their "racial, national, and gendered identities." She uses the Two Treatises of Government and Commentaries on the Laws of England as the bases of property ownership. In her book, property is part of a "matrix of rights and claims for citizenship."^[4] Balachandran Orihuela posits that certain minorities, slaves, and other colonial subjects disenfranchised by citizenship and property laws turned to piracy and illegal trade as a form of self-representation to combat abjection. Balachandran Orihuela investigated pirates, black slaves in the Antebellum South, Mexicans on the Mexico–United States border before the Mexican–American War, and Confederate blockade runners of the American Civil War.^[5]

The book received positive literary reviews in Early American Literature and the Journal of American Studies.^[4]^[6]

References

^ Balachandran Orihuela, Sharada (January 2012). "Doctoral student highlight" (PDF). La Monarca. Vol. 3. University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-28. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
^ Ganapathy, Nirmala (2020-08-16). "Kamala Harris' Indian roots remain in focus back home". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
^ Farrell, Liam (November 12, 2020). "First Cousin". The University of Maryland Today. Archived from the original on 2020-11-13. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
^ ^a ^b Payton, Jason M. (2019). "Review". Early American Literature. 54 (2): 580–584. doi:10.1353/eal.2019.0051. ISSN 1534-147X. S2CID 198773481.
^ "Sharada Balachandran Orihuela". english.umd.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
^ Williamson, C. B. (July 2020). "Review". Journal of American Studies. 54 (3): 636–637. doi:10.1017/S0021875820000481. ISSN 0021-8758. S2CID 225635095.

Types of pirate

Areas

Atlantic World	Caribbean British Virgin Islands Spanish Main Lake Nicaragua Venezuela Gulf of Guinea
Indian Ocean	Horn of Africa Somali Coast Indonesia Persian Gulf Strait of Malacca Nosy Boraha
Other waters	Baltic Slavic piracy Barbary Coast Falcon Lake South China Coast Sulu Sea
Pirate havens and bases	Barataria Bay Île Sainte-Marie Libertatia Lundy Mamora Port Royal Republic of Pirates Republic of Salé Saint Augustin Saint-Malo Tortuga

Major figures

Pirates

Pirate
hunters

Pirate ships

Pirate battles and incidents

Piracy law

Fictional pirates	Askeladd Tom Ayrton Barbe Rouge Captain Birdseye Captain Blood Captain Crook Captain Flint Captain Hook Captain Nemo Captain Pugwash Captain Sabertooth Captain Stingaree Charlotte de Berry Davy Jones Edward Kenway Elaine Marley Elizabeth Swann Franky Guybrush Threepwood Hector Barbossa Jack Sparrow Jacquotte Delahaye José Gaspar Joshamee Gibbs Long John Silver Monkey D. Luffy Vaas Montenegro Mr. Smee Nami Nico Robin Roronoa Zoro Sandokan Sanji Tony Tony Chopper Usopp Will Turner Zanzibar
Novels	The Pirate The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea Treasure Island Facing the Flag On Stranger Tides Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island Castaways of the Flying Dutchman The Angel's Command Voyage of Slaves Long John Silver Pirate Latitudes Mistress of the Seas Silver: Return to Treasure Island
Tropes	Buried treasure Davy Jones's locker Eyepatch Jolly Roger skull and crossbones Keelhauling Marooning No purchase, no pay Pegleg Pet parrot Pirate code Pirate utopia Treasure map Walking the plank
Miscellaneous	Air pirate Space pirate International Talk Like a Pirate Day Pirates versus Ninjas

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