Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity

by Hans Turley

Book Overview

An examination into the homoerotic and other transgressive aspects of the pirate's world

Despite, or perhaps because of, our lack of actual knowledge about pirates, an immense architecture of cultural mythology has arisen around them. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814782248
• ISBN13: 9780814782248
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"