Resumen: This article seeks to analyze three interrelated texts, specifically theSpanish miniseriesAlakrana(2011), the independent US documentaryfilmStolen Seas, and the Hollywood big-budget productionCaptainPhillips(2013), which, though produced in very different contexts, dealt with comparable transnational issues. All three of them werebased on real events, namely the hijacking of a merchant boat or fishingtrawler by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. This analysis will be pri-marily carried out from an ecocritical perspective but will also takeinto account the ways in which different generic parameters, in... Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.1093/isle/isy087 Año: 2019 Publicado en: ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 26, 1 (2019), 189-210 ISSN: 1076-0962 Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.158 - Literature and Literary Theory (Q1) - Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (Q3)