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ABSTRACT Racial stereotypes circulate between print media, accruing affective intensities as they do so. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “The Offshore Pirate” provides a case study in the affective networks that connect advertising ephemera with magazine fiction. Racialized southern archetypes found on citrus crate labels—the Southern belle, the swarthy pirate, and the minstrel caricature—come to life in Fitzgerald’s story set off the coast of Florida. The racial icons of consumer culture magnify oral pleasure and tropical escape. Tapping into this racial imaginary, “The Offshore Pirate” celebrates orality, liminality, and intermixture even as its plot seems to curtail these possibilities.
Catherine Keyser (Mon,) studied this question.