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

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 th. .

Hans Turley shows the ways in which sodomy and piracy are inextricable from the cultural imagination of the eighteenth century and, in doing so, encourages us to rethink not only pirate history, but the history of sexuality.

Hans Turley shows the ways in which sodomy and piracy are inextricable from the cultural imagination of the eighteenth century and, in doing so, encourages us to rethink not only pirate history, but the history of sexuality as well. George E. Haggerty,University of California, Riverside. Hans Turley was Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Start reading Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash on your Kindle in under a minute.

Although the book contains a fair amount about sodomy, it has little, too little, about the lash, and, alas, nothing at.

Although the book contains a fair amount about sodomy, it has little, too little, about the lash, and, alas, nothing at all about the kill-devil rum. Moreover, the book is no.The essays written in memory of Hans Turley extend his intellectual legacy by considering themes partly inspired by his ground-breaking Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity (New York, 1999), including transformations in the sex/gender system, the emergence of heteronormativity, the dynamics of same-sex desire, and queer friendship and sociability.

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. This item: Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity. There's a problem loading this menu right now.

Turley makes broad and sweeping generalizations about pirates and their sexuality in this book.

Turley, Hans (1999). Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity. Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth Century Caribbean. Retrieved 3 August 2017.

Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity. Publisher: NYU Press. Print ISBN: 9780814782248, 0814782248.

Turley's wide-ranging analysis provides a new kind of history of both piracy and desire, articulating the meaning of pirate's contradictory image to.Bibliographic Details. Publisher: New York University Press, New York.

Turley's wide-ranging analysis provides a new kind of history of both piracy and desire, articulating the meaning of pirate's contradictory image to literary, cultural, and historical studies. Publication Date: 1999.