ROBIN HOOD: PEOPLE’S OUTLAW AND FOREST HERO A Graphic Guide
PAUL BUHLE • ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHRIS HUTCHINSON, GARY DUMM, AND SHARON RUDAHL
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Where and what was Robin Hood? Why is an outlaw from 14th-century England still a hero today? Revolutionaries adopted Robin, children’s books offered countless versions, and Robin Hood entered all forms of pop culture in various guises. The “bad-good” hero of urban fiction of the 1940s–50s, and more important, the Western outlaw who thwarts the bankers in pulps, films, and comics, is essentially Robin Hood. Hollywood blacklist victims devised radical plots of “people’s outlaws” climaxing in network television’s The Adventures of Robin Hood. In addition, there is also a largely unknown and unconsidered environmental side of Robin Hood, an ecological wholeness that, for the most part, is absent in the popular mythos. Robin Hood: People’s Outlaw and Forest Hero features essays by historian Paul Buhle and 30 pages of collages and comic art, recuperating the artistic interpretations of Robin from the past seven centuries.
DEC 2011
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978-1-60486-318-5
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112 PAGES
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LIFE UNDER THE JOLLY ROGER Reflections on Golden Age Piracy GABRIEL KUHN “In addition to history, Gabriel Kuhn’s radical piratology brings philosophy, ethnography, and cultural studies to the stark question of the time: which were the criminals—bankers and brokers or sailors and slaves? By so doing he supplies us with another case where the history isn’t dead, it’s not even past!” —Peter Linebaugh, co-author of The Many-Headed Hydra
Over the last couple of decades an ideological battle has raged over the political legacy and cultural symbolism of the “golden age” pirates who roamed the seas between the Caribbean Islands and the Indian Ocean from 1690 to 1725. They are depicted as romanticized villains on the one hand, and as genuine social rebels on the other. Life Under the Jolly Roger examines the political and cultural significance of these nomadic outlaws by relating historical accounts to a wide range of theoretical concepts—reaching from Marshall Sahlins and Pierre Clastres to Mao-Tse Tung and Eric J. Hobsbawm via Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault. The meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and disability in golden age pirate communities are analyzed and contextualized, as are the pirates’ forms of organization, economy, and ethics. While providing an extensive catalog of scholarly references for the academic reader, this delightful and engaging study is directed at a wide audience and demands no other requirements than a love for pirates, daring theoretical speculation, and passionate, yet respectful, inquiry. DEC 2009
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978-1-60486-052-8
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288 PAGES
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