354 Treasure Island Remixed (with C.B. Lee)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure Treasure Island gave the world a number of familiar pirate tropes, like parrots on shoulders and X marks the spot. But it also helped lock us into a somewhat limited view of life on the high seas. Pirates and piracy have existed in many eras in many different oceans--and not every would-be adventurer is a young English boy living in the nineteenth century. C.B. Lee's exciting new novel A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix provides a fresh look at a familiar tale. In this YA novel, two intrepid girls hunt for a legendary treasure on the deadly waters of the South China Sea. In this episode, C.B. joins Jacke for a discussion of what it means to remix a classic, her research into the ruthless pirate queen known as "the Head of the Dragon," and more. C.B. Lee is a Lambda Literary Award nominated writer of young adult and middle grade fiction. Her works include A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix (Feiwel and Friends), the Sidekick Squad series (Duet Books), Ben 10 graphic novels (Boom! Studios), Out Now: Queer We Go Again (HarperTeen), Minecraft: The Shipwreck (Del Rey Books), and From A Certain Point Of View: The Empire Strikes Back (Del Rey Books). Lee’s work has been featured in Teen Vogue, Wired Magazine, Hypable, Tor’s Best of Fantasy and Sci Fi and the American Library Association’s Rainbow List. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, it's Jack. Do you ever find yourself wondering about the little mysteries in life?
0:06.0	Like how refrigeration happened? Or just how many times did the CIA try to assassinate
0:12.0	Fidel Castro anyway? If you find yourself going down rabbit holes like these, then I recommend
0:18.1	a trip to the podcast, History of Everything. Hosted by History lover Steven Bell and
0:24.4	scientist Gabby Bell, the show dives into all the cool but weird little details that make
0:30.3	our world what it is today. You can count on them to cover literally the history of everything,
0:36.2	from potatoes to the crusades. So don't miss out, listen to History of Everything wherever
0:42.4	you get your podcasts, and tell them I sent you. Hello, in 1881, the Children's magazine Young
0:50.0	Folks began running an adventure story called The Sea Cook, a story for boys. By a man named
0:56.9	Captain George North. Captain George North was a pseudonym of Scottish author Robert Lewis
1:02.8	Stevenson, and The Sea Cook, a story for boys, turned into what we now know as the novel Treasure
1:09.2	Island. It gave us plenty of details that came to be part of pirate lore. X marks the spot and
1:16.5	parrots on the shoulder. But it also locked us into some of that iconography. Pirates and piracy
1:22.7	can be more than just a young 19th century English boy signing up for an adventure to deserted tropical
1:29.5	islands. Pirates have existed in all oceans, in all eras, and piracy is a state of mind.
1:37.3	It was to be a story for boys. Stevenson said of his work, no need of psychology or fine writing.
1:45.4	Women were excluded. All well and good for Stevenson, but what about the rest of us?
1:51.9	What about using adventure stories and pirate novels in particular to learn about a different
1:57.6	era in different people and a different part of the world? Why not take the magical spirit that
2:03.7	makes pirate novels so exciting and apply them to something fresh and new? Enter today's guest,
2:12.1	Seabedley, Treasure Island Remixed. Today on the History of Literature.
2:33.3	Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast. We've jumped into November. Now I'm glad you survived
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