(Note: The book if available in Kindle format). The Sallee Rovers, Book One of The Pirates of the Narrow Seas Trilogy is an expertly crafted swashbuckler brimming with authentic detail and fully realized portraits of life at sea, written by a tall ship sailor and internationally acclaimed poet.Īwards: Winner of a Sweet Revolution Award for “Best Full Cast” and “Judge’s Pick” Publisher’s blurb: Lieutenant Peter Thorton of the 18th century British navy must struggle to come out gay while surviving storms at sea, ship-to-ship battles, duels, kidnapping, and more in his quest for true love and honor. Knip’s essay is an outstanding work of cultural history and a compelling contribution to our understanding of Melville’s social thought.Pirates of the Narrow Seas 1: Sallee Rovers, by M. KeiĪ swashbuckling tale full of colour, adventure and romance – a good read! Knip argues that Melville’s portrayals of homosocial desire “as a binding paradisiacal glue” are rooted not only in his powerful imagination, but also and crucially in his inhabitation of seafaring communities in which social masturbation and sex between men were often accepted as matters of course that did not constitute sexual identity. Through incisive readings of Typee, White-Jacket, Billy Budd, and "John Marr," Knip critiques accounts of Melville that rely on “anachronistically heterosexualized sailors,” or present homoerotic desire as either repressed or expressed only privately.
Van Buskirk, an American sailor whose writings extensively describe the sexual practices of working-class sailors in the 1850s.
Courtesy of the 2017 Hennig Cohen Prize committee of the Melville Society: Knip reconsiders Melville’s conceptions of desire and community on the basis of a study of the diaries of Philip C.
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