Thieving Three-Fingered Jack : transatlantic tales of a Jamaican outlaw, 1780-2015 / Frances R. Botkin.

By:

Botkin, Frances R [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critical Caribbean studiesPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (vii, 227 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813587417
0813587417
9780813587400
0813587409
0813587395
9780813587394
9780813587387
0813587387

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thieving Three-Fingered Jack.DDC classification:

809/.93351 23

LOC classification:

PN57.M23 B68 2017

Other classification:

LIT004100 | HIS041000 | BIO024000

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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.

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.

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"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.