Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015 (Critical Caribbean Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (559 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813587387 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Finally, the study of Obi for which we’ve been waiting: one that moves across not just historical periods but also language, culture, and media. Few figures possess the necessary power to illuminate a region or an era, but Jack Mansong — especially in Professor Botkin’s hands — proves such a vehicle." . In Thieving Three-Fingered Jack, Frances Botkin gives us an extraordinary study for understanding transatlantic literary relations
Botkin offers a literary and cultural history that explores the persistence of stories about this black rebel, his contributions to constructions of black masculinity in the Atlantic world, and his legacies in Jamaican and United States popular culture.. For more than two centuries, writers, performers, and storytellers in England, Jamaica, and the United States have “thieved" Three Fingered Jack's riveting tale, defining black agency through and against representations of his resistance.Frances R. Narratives about his exploits shed light on the problems of black rebellion and solutions administered by the colonial state, creating an occasion to consider counter-narratives about its methods of divide and conquer. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial machine until his grisly death at its behest. The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 178