Pirate NovelsIn Pirate Novels Nina Gerassi Navarro examines an overlooked genre to reveal how history and fiction blend to address important isuses of nation building in nineteenth century Spanish America. In the figure of the pirate, bold and heroic to some, cruel and criminal to others, she reveals an almost ideal character that came to embody the spirit of emerging nationhood and the violence associated with the struggle to attain it. Beginning with an overview