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United States of Banana takes place at the Statue of Liberty in post-9/11 New York City, where Hamlet, Zarathustra, and Giannina are on a quest to free the Puerto Rican prisoner Segismundo. Segismundo has been imprisoned for more than one hundred years, hidden away by his father, the king of the United States of Banana, for the crime of having been born. But when the king remarries, he frees his son, and for the sake of reconciliation, makes Puerto Rico the fifty-first state and grants American passports to all Latin American citizens. This staggering show of benevolence rocks the global community, causing an unexpected power shift with far reaching implications --

Aufzeichnung --- Drama. --- Englisch. --- Hispanic Americans --- Hispanic Americans. --- Puerto Ricans --- Puerto Ricans. --- New York (State) --- United States.

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In 1690, a dramatic account of piracy was published in Mexico City. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez described the incredible adventures of a poor Spanish American carpenter who was taken captive by British pirates near the Philippines and forced to work for them for two years. After circumnavigating the world, he was freed and managed to return to Mexico, where the Spanish viceroy commissioned the well-known Mexican scholar Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora to write down Ramírez's account as part of an imperial propaganda campaign against pirates. The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez has long been regarded as a work of fiction—in fact, as Latin America's first novel—but Fabio López Lázaro makes a convincing case that the book is a historical account of real events, albeit full of distortions and lies. Using contemporary published accounts, as well as newly discovered documents from Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Dutch archives, he proves that Ramírez voyaged with one of the most famous pirates of all time, William Dampier. López Lázaro's critical translation of The Misfortunes provides the only extensive Spanish eyewitness account of pirates during the period in world history (1650–1750) when they became key agents of the European powers jockeying for international political and economic dominance. An extensive introduction places The Misfortunes within the worldwide struggle that Spain, England, and Holland waged against the ambitious Louis XIV of France, which some historians consider to be the first world war.

Pirates --- Puerto Ricans --- Captivity narratives --- Voyages and travels --- Seafaring life --- History --- Ramírez, Alonso, --- Dampier, William, --- Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de, --- Spain --- Latin America --- Foreign relations --- Ethnology --- Barbary corsairs --- Corsairs --- Freebooters --- Outlaws --- Buccaneers --- Sailors' life --- Sea life --- Adventure and adventurers --- Manners and customs --- Journeys --- Travel books --- Travels --- Trips --- Geography --- Travel --- Travelers --- Autobiography --- Prose literature --- Dampier, --- Dampier, Guillaume, --- Boricuas