Pirate Assemblage

This essay “Pirate Assemblage” explores two related questions. The first is how we read and appreciate the literary form of pirate literature such as Alexander Exquemelin’s Buccaneers America (1678) Charles Johnson’s two-volume General History Pyrates (volume one 1724, volume 1728). second what answer to that question suggests for regard in relation more canonical eighteenth-century this might revise our reading literature. My concept “assemblage” appreciating literature, my “pirate assemblage” new ways texts Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera (1728) were written soon after Pyrates. In doing so, responds large body scholarly on pirates has focused identity—race, class, gender, sexuality—and whether or not was transgressive. essay, by closely unique utilizing Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari’s concepts “minor literature,” I argue rather than representing transgressive identities, instead progressively produces economic social connections deterritorializes economy, form, language.