Refashioning the Rule of Law: The Ocean and Pirate Ship as States of Exception in Maxwell Philip's Emmanuel Appadocca
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Maritime Novel Abstract:
My paper critiques notions of revenge, justice, and law in Maxwell Philip's 1854 maritime novel, Emmanuel Appadocca, which is the story of a mulatto son’s turn to piracy in his quest for revenge against his white slave-owning father.
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