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Corsairs, Captives, Converts is a broad study of the transnational earlymodern phenomenon of the Barbary captivity narrative: autobiographicalreports by former captives in the North African Maghreb, whohad become victims of the so-called Barbary corsairs. These pirates,based in Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco, roamed the Mediterraneanfrom the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, takingtrade goods and, in particular, crew members for enslavement and theextortion of ransom. Within this timespan, the Barbary captivity narrativespread across Europe and America. This text type…mehr

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Corsairs, Captives, Converts is a broad study of the transnational earlymodern phenomenon of the Barbary captivity narrative: autobiographicalreports by former captives in the North African Maghreb, whohad become victims of the so-called Barbary corsairs. These pirates,based in Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco, roamed the Mediterraneanfrom the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, takingtrade goods and, in particular, crew members for enslavement and theextortion of ransom. Within this timespan, the Barbary captivity narrativespread across Europe and America. This text type illustrates andreflects the gradual transformation of reported fact into narrative fictionin the context of the birth of the novel. Corsairs, Captives, Convertsis the first full-fledged study of important German Barbary narrativesfrom a cross-national perspective.