From Hawkins to Jenkins: interpreting violence in British-Atlantic piracy narratives

IF 0.3 Q2 HISTORY
Richard Frohock
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ABSTRACT Reports of extreme violence are a defining feature of British-Atlantic piracy narratives. These violent episodes illustrate human behavior beyond the boundaries of civil norms and as such allow for a fundamental interrogation of those boundaries. The transgressive violence of pirate figures makes them ideally suited to exploring major political and philosophical topics of the period; the story of piratical violence allows for dialogic formulations – claims and counterclaims – about national character, human nature, civil society, and the workings of empire in the Atlantic. While some British pirate narratives recount violence in order to assert nationalist, even jingoistic perspectives, others explore piratical violence as a way of satirizing mainstream British culture and imperialism as fundamentally predatory and piratical.
从霍金斯到詹金斯:解读英大西洋海盗叙事中的暴力
极端暴力事件的报道是英国大西洋海盗故事的一个典型特征。这些暴力事件说明了人类超越民事规范界限的行为,因此允许对这些界限进行根本性的审问。海盗人物的越轨暴力使他们非常适合探索这一时期的主要政治和哲学话题;海盗暴力的故事允许关于民族性格、人性、公民社会和大西洋帝国运作的对话表述——索赔和反诉。虽然一些英国海盗叙事讲述暴力是为了维护民族主义甚至沙文主义的观点,但另一些则探讨海盗暴力是讽刺英国主流文化和帝国主义从根本上掠夺和海盗的一种方式。
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