Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:43:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Ship narratives


Liz,

If you're considering authors from the former imperial
center, you might look at William Golding's _Rites of
Passage_, which is set entirely shipboard.  

Rebecca

--- Ashemak-AT-aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/28/00 2:02:01 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time, 
> emd23-AT-cornell.edu writes:
> 
> << Hi Everyone
>  I am putting together a syllabus which looks at
> trans-oceanic journeys
>  written by poco writers where a good portion of the
> narrative takes place on
>  a ship. I have a list of the obvious
> suspects--Lamming, Hearne, Walcott,
>  Danticat etc. I am trying to find other works (any
> genre, including
>  history/theory) beyond Afro-Caribbean. Any
> suggestions? Thanks, Liz >>
> 
> Hi Liz,
> Try Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune--haven't
> read it but it's supposed 
> to be about a young woman who is a stowaway on a
> ship from S. America to 
> California.  And there's Francisco Goldman's The
> Ordinary Seaman, about a 
> group of Central Americans who get stranded on a
> non-functioning ship in 
> Brooklyn harbor. There's also the 17thc narrative
> The Misadventures of Alonso 
> Ramirez (Los Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez) by
> Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora 
> (trans. Edwin H. Pleasants, 1962) which is a
> picaresque/testimonio in which 
> the protagonist, born in Puerto Rico, travels the
> world on board a ship and 
> encounters pirates along the way.  There's also a
> novel called They're Cows, 
> We're Pigs which takes place onboard a pirate ship,
> if i remember correctly. 
> 
> And there's a non-fiction book by Marcus Rediker
> called The Devil and the 
> Deep Blue Sea--about the social systems onboard
> (early modern) ships. Hope 
> that helps! --April
> 
> 
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====Rebecca Weaver
University of Kentucky
raweav1-AT-pop.uky.edu

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