Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity Turley HansPaperback
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity Turley HansPaperback An examination into the homoerotic and other transgressive aspects of the pirate's worldDespite, or perhaps…
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Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity Turley HansPaperback
An examination into the homoerotic and other transgressive aspects of the pirate's worldDespite, or perhaps because of, our lack of actual knowledge about pirates, an immense architecture of cultural mythology has arisen around them. How did the pirate-a real threat to mercantilism and trade in early-modern Britain-become the hypermasculine anti-hero familiar to us through a variety of pop culture outlets? Three hundred years of novels, plays, painting, and movies have etched into the popular imagination contradictory images of the pirate as both arch-criminal and anti-hero par excellence.
How did the pirate's world, marked as it was by sexual and economic transgression, come to capture our collective imagination?In Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, Hans Turley delves deep into the archives to examine the homoerotic and other culturally transgressive aspects of the