Liberty and death: Pirates and zombies in Atlantic modernity

IF 0.3 Q2 HISTORY
Alexandra Ganser, G. Rath
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ABSTRACT Questioning the opposition of freedom and enslavement and of life and death, zombies and pirates have negotiated (post)colonial relations for centuries. Zombies, bodies or spirits doomed to serve a master beyond death, thematize histories of enslavement which also include rebellion. Similarly, pirates were used to articulate colonial adventure and exploitation on the one hand and the idea of a resistant collective beyond established power relations on the other. Both have been cast as figures of exception who are discursively located beyond law and state while simultaneously playing a constitutive role for both; both figures are marked by ambivalent characterizations – hero and criminal, rebel and slave, perpetrator and victim. This opening essay introduces the conjunctures of these figures in the Atlantic realm with a focus on their cultural-historical functions for empire and nation building, for legal discourses and the history of ideas, as well as for contemporary cultural and artistic research.
自由与死亡:大西洋现代性中的海盗与僵尸
摘要僵尸和海盗在质疑自由、奴役和生死的对立时,已经就(后)殖民关系进行了几个世纪的谈判。僵尸,注定要为主人服务的尸体或灵魂,将奴役的历史主题化,其中也包括叛乱。同样,海盗一方面被用来表达殖民冒险和剥削,另一方面则被用来表达超越既定权力关系的抵抗集体的想法。两者都被塑造成例外的人物,他们在法律和国家之外进行讨论,同时为两者发挥构成作用;这两个人物都有着矛盾的性格特征&英雄与罪犯、反叛者与奴隶、犯罪者与受害者。这篇开篇文章介绍了这些人物在大西洋领域的结合,重点介绍了他们对帝国和国家建设、法律话语和思想史以及当代文化和艺术研究的文化历史功能。
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