| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 227 pages). |
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Critical Caribbean studies |
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Critical Caribbean studies.
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| Summary |
"Starting in 1780, a fugitive slave, known as "Three-Fingered Jack" or Jack Mansong, terrorized colonial Jamaica for almost two years. An outlaw, thief, and killer, he was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial machine by preying on traveling planters until his death at the hands of colonial troops. The legend of Three-Fingered Jack still has currency in Jamaica, but the story has expanded and contracted over the years to serve the various purposes of the teller. Frances R. Botkin has compiled and analyzed the various plays and songs written about Three-Fingered Jack throughout the centuries in order to show how this story traveled from the Caribbean to England and the United States, returning to Jamaica in a sanitized literary and artistic form, and then evolving from there to be reclaimed by the Jamaicans as the tale of a heroic resistance figure to be revered. As the various productions about Jack show, depending on who is telling the story, the character can evoke sympathy for a wronged rebel, or horror at the destruction he caused"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Representing Three-Fingered Jack; 1. Divide and Conquer: Three-Fingered Jack and the Maroons; 2. "Jack Is a MAN": Prose Obis, 1800-1870; 3. Staging Obi: Three-Fingered Jack in London and New York; 4. Being Jack Mansong: Ira Aldridge and Three-Fingered Jack; 5. After Emancipation: Masquerade and Miscegenation; 6. Mansong: No Longer "Nearly Everybody Wite"; Epilogue: "The Baddest Man Around"; Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 30, 2018). |
| Subject |
Mansong, Jack, -1781 -- In literature.
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Mansong, Jack, -1781 -- Legends.
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Mansong, Jack, -1781. (OCoLC)fst01832754
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Jamaican literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Legends -- Jamaica.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Criminals & Outlaws.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
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Jamaican literature. (OCoLC)fst00981295
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Legends. (OCoLC)fst00995592
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Jamaica. (OCoLC)fst01211575
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| Genre/Form |
Legends. (OCoLC)fst01423803
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Botkin, Frances R. Thieving Three-Fingered Jack. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2017 9780813587394 (DLC) 2017008279 |
| ISBN |
9780813587417 (electronic book) |
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0813587417 (electronic book) |
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9780813587400 (electronic book) |
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0813587409 (electronic book) |
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9780813587394 (hardcover) |
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