As Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote, pirate stories thrive on “all the old romance, retold exactly in the ancient way.”
Our latest is live! 🏴☠️ Our own @lincodega writes about the history of pirate tropes and how they lend to both subtextual and explicitly queer narratives—and how Lin embraced and subverted these tropes in their brand-new queer pirate novel, PASHA THE STORM, out now!
These books, shows, and movies demonstrate the ways in which the swashbuckling rogue pirate fantasy previously established during the golden age of piracy formed our impressions of what a pirate story should look like, either by reifying or undercutting those themes. Embracing queerness in contemporary pirate fiction is an act of narrative continuance, furthering the positions of anti-imperialism, transgressive social norms, and the freedom that a ship represents in fiction. To ignore queerness onboard a pirate ship is to ignore the history of pirates—and, more importantly, the stories of resistance they inspired.
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it's fascinating to me that the image the public had of the pirate during the golden age of piracy is almost the exact same image that people have now! the tropes, caricatures, and archetypes have remained almost entirely unchanged!
i dive into the history of pirate tropes -- exploring the literature and films that cemented them -- and then show how i subverted or queered those tropes in my own pirate novel, Pasha the Storm.
