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One Piece and the modern pirate media revolution
01.09.2023 - 16:07 / polygon.com / Peter Pan
“Who says pirates have to be scary?”
It’s a question protagonist Monkey D. Luffy asks in Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the immensely popular manga One Piece, and it’s at the heart of recent reconceptions of pirates in popular culture.
Set in a fictional, sea-centric world where pirates regularly face off against the government’s authoritarian marine force, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece has captured the imagination of adventure readers around the globe — first as a manga, then as an anime. With more than 500 million copies sold, the ongoing manga is the bestselling comic of all time. And it’s all about pirates, one of Western pop culture’s most enduring yet least diversified character types. For existing One Piece fans, the new Netflix series will most likely be judged in the context of its beloved source material. But, for those unfamiliar with the manga and anime, One Piece will most likely be judged in the context of the pirate adventure stories that have come before.
In our culture, most depictions of pirates — fictional, historical, or both — have been directly inspired by a specific subset of pirates: white, European male captains living during the Golden Age of Piracy, between the 1650s and the 1730s. (Think Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, and Calico Jack.) Most of this narrow depiction of pirates can be traced back to one book: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates. Published by Captain Charles Johnson (believed to be a pen name for Robinson Crusoe novelist Daniel Defoe) in England in 1724, the book contained (perhaps exaggerated) biographies of famous pirates. It introduced concepts including the Jolly Roger, pirates with peg legs, and buried treasure, and was a major influence for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and J.M. Barrie’s depiction of Captain Hook in Peter Pan. Moving forward, we can see its impact on characters like One-Eyed Willy from The Goonies or Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
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In actuality, pirates throughout history have been much more diverse than A General History of Pyrates, and Western pop culture in general, have suggested. Joel Cook, a maritime historian and archaeologist based in North Carolina, explores this idea as the host and co-writer of Rogue History, a digital series produced by PBS that explores historical figures who have lived outside of the law. The first season of Rogue History is about pirates, and it dispels many of the narrow, often whitewashed ideas audiences hold about the history of seafaring marauders. Cook has been interested in pirates since he was a kid hanging out in his mother’s classroom, reading about the history of the open seas. “As I got older, I started to
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