TY  - BOOK
AU  - Botkin,Frances R.
TI  - Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015 
T2  - Critical Caribbean Studies
SN  - 9780813587394
AV  - PN57.M23 
U1  - 809/.93351 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English literature
KW  - Jamaican literature
KW  - Legends
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Caribbean
KW  - freedom fighter
KW  - jack mansong
KW  - jamaica
KW  - mansong
KW  - outlaw
KW  - rebel
KW  - thief
N1  - restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813587417?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813587417
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813587417/original
ER  -