Thieving Three-Fingered Jack

Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015

Frances R. Botkin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2017
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-8739-4 (ISBN)

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Starting in 1780, a fugitive slave, known as ""Three-Fingered Jack"", terrorized colonial Jamaica for almost two years. An outlaw, thief, and killer, he was also a freedom fighter. Frances R. Botkin has compiled and analysed the various plays and songs written about Three-Fingered Jack throughout the centuries in order to show how this story travelled from the Caribbean to England and the US.

The fugitive slave known as “Three-Fingered Jack” terrorized colonial Jamaica from 1780 until vanquished by Maroons, self-emancipated Afro-Jamaicans bound by treaty to police the island for runaways and rebels. A thief and a killer, Jack was also a freedom fighter who sabotaged the colonial machine until his grisly death at its behest. 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. 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. 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.

FRANCES R. BOTKIN is a professor of English at Towson University in Maryland.

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 Emancipatio: Masquerade and Miscegenation
6. Mansong: No Longer "Nearly Everybody Wite"
Epilogue: "The Baddest Man Around"

Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Critical Caribbean Studies
Zusatzinfo	5 images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8135-8739-5 / 0813587395
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-8739-4 / 9780813587394
Zustand	Neuware