Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 13:18:58 EDT
Subject: Re: Ship narratives


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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