" Interest in the Crotch : " a Reply
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substantial agreement with many parts of Kelly's analysis, one detail of the text which he did not pick up on leads me to offer a different route to Kelly's conclusion that, according to the narrator of the poem, Laecania insults his and his slave's virility, and that in response to this perceived unmanning, he replies with the charge of lesbianism. However, the route I propose introduces into the itinerary not only issues of gender and violence, but also those of race. The detail from which my remarks spring is that the slave's penis is described as a "Jewish load" (Iudaeum pondus 4). Kelly sees a distinction among penises which are covered and those which are not. This is right, but not in quite the way Kelly means. The reference to a "Jewish load" introduces a distinction between those penises which are covered by the foreskin and those which are circumcised, and thus exposed. The narrator's slave's penis is uncovered, not only in the sense that the slave is naked, but also in that he has been circumcised. This leads me to see the reference to Laecania's slave's "groin bound in soft black leather," as an allusion to the fact that the slave is both black and uncircumcised-his
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تاریخ انتشار 2011