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

By Hans Turley

Book information

Publisher
NYU Press
Year
1999
ISBN
9780814782231, 081478223X
LCC
G535 .T87 1999
Open Library ID
OL378094M
Language
english
Format
CHM
Filesize
543 kB (556028 bytes)
Pages
199\0
Time added
2010-01-07 06:59:20

Description

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 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? How did the pirate

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