The absent pirate: exceeding justice in the Indian Ocean
The absent pirate: exceeding justice in the Indian Ocean
Legal, literary and visual archives are replete with absent pirates. It is remarkable how often the pirate is only partly delineated or seen from a distance, is ghostly, or plotted off-stage. These figurations variously nerve and unnerve imperial discourses and narratives of justice. This paper addresses some recent, fictional non-representations of ‘the Somali pirate’. I propose that this absenting of the pirate is critical to the texts’ various approaches or reproaches to justice. I further suggest that these fictions are concerned with an ethics of proximity – of physical space and geographical affect – that exceeds the primacy and virtue of ‘justice’.
nuruddin farah, paul greengrass, indian ocean, justice, tobias lindholm, piracy, somalia
522-535
Jones, Stephanie
19fbdd53-fdd0-43ad-9203-7462e5f658c6
28 September 2015
Jones, Stephanie
19fbdd53-fdd0-43ad-9203-7462e5f658c6
Abstract
Legal, literary and visual archives are replete with absent pirates. It is remarkable how often the pirate is only partly delineated or seen from a distance, is ghostly, or plotted off-stage. These figurations variously nerve and unnerve imperial discourses and narratives of justice. This paper addresses some recent, fictional non-representations of ‘the Somali pirate’. I propose that this absenting of the pirate is critical to the texts’ various approaches or reproaches to justice. I further suggest that these fictions are concerned with an ethics of proximity – of physical space and geographical affect – that exceeds the primacy and virtue of ‘justice’.
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Accepted/In Press date: 19 August 2015
Published date: 28 September 2015
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nuruddin farah, paul greengrass, indian ocean, justice, tobias lindholm, piracy, somalia
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Local EPrints ID: 382940
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/382940
ISSN: 1753-1055
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