Author: Person who had been a slave there a considerable timePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
An Account of South-West Barbary
Author: Person who had been a slave there a considerable timePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Alphabetical index to the Astor library
Author: New York city, Astor librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Narration, Navigation, and Colonialism
Author: Jamal Eddine BenhayounPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9789052019581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The texts collected in this book are all produced and located within the converging fields of navigation and displacement. The connection between navigation and narration becomes clear when we realise that most of the authors and heroes of the accounts discussed by the author were, in one way or another, involved in shipping and navigation and that their accounts were produced within fluid and floating spaces and in the course of intriguing voyages and long cruises. In all cases, these narratives start with the narrators on board ships and end with them once again taking charge of their ships and sailing back home. In this book, the author argues that the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English narratives of adventure and captivity were not produced within clearly demarcated territories and on dry land, but within spaces of indeterminacy, struggle, and transition.
Barbary Captives
Author: Mario KlarerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231555121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the early nineteenth centuries, pirates from Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco not only attacked sailors and merchants in the Mediterranean but also roved as far as Iceland. A substantial number of the European captives who later returned home from the Barbary Coast, as maritime North Africa was then called, wrote and published accounts of their experiences. These popular narratives greatly influenced the development of the modern novel and autobiography, and they also shaped European perceptions of slavery as well as of the Muslim world. Barbary Captives brings together a selection of early modern slave narratives in English translation for the first time. It features accounts written by men and women across three centuries and in nine different languages that recount the experience of capture and servitude in North Africa. These texts tell the stories of Christian pirates, Christian rowers on Muslim galleys, house slaves in the palaces of rulers, domestic servants, agricultural slaves, renegades, and social climbers in captivity. They also depict liberation through ransom, escape, or religious conversion. This book sheds new light on the social history of Mediterranean slavery and piracy, early modern concepts of unfree labor, and the evolution of the Barbary captivity narrative as a literary and historical genre.
Barbary and Enlightenment
Author: Ann ThomsonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004082731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitude towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placing them in the context of the different eighteenth-century systems of classification of the world. We see that uncertainty as to how to classify this region, its inhabitants, its form of government and social evolution - which led to its absence from most contemporary anthropological discussions - was resolved in the early nineteenth-century with the appearance of what were to become colonial stereotypes.
Memoirs of Literature
Author: Barbary and Enlightenment
Author: Ann ThomsonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004246517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This book, based on a wide range of eighteenth-century works, concerns European attitude towards North Africa in the century preceding the French conquest of Algiers in 1830. It studies the radical transformation of perceptions of Barbary during the period, essentially by placing them in the context of the different eighteenth-century systems of classification of the world. We see that uncertainty as to how to classify this region, its inhabitants, its form of government and social evolution - which led to its absence from most contemporary anthropological discussions - was resolved in the early nineteenth-century with the appearance of what were to become colonial stereotypes.
Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798
Author: Nabil MatarPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004440259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 is the first book that examines the Arabic captivity narratives in the early modern period. Based on Arabic sources in archives stretching from Amman to Fez to London and Rome, Matar presents the story of captivity from the perspective of the Arabic-speaking captives who have not been examined in the growing field of captivity studies.
Author: W. Gardiner
Author: White Kennett