Frances R. Botkin

Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Critical Caribbean Studies
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 199mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780813587387
• ISBN-10: 0813587387
• Artikelnr.: 50906504

Autorenporträt

Botkin, Frances R.

Inhaltsangabe

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