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  Thieving Three-Fingered Jack [electronic resource] : transatlantic tales of a Jamaican outlaw, 1780-2015

  Author

  Botkin, Frances R.  

  Publisher:

  Rutgers University Press,

  Pub date:

  [2017]

  Pages:

  vii, 227 pages ;

  ISBN:

  9780813587394

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  Thieving Three-Fingered Jack [electronic resource] : transatlantic tales of a Jamaican outlaw, 1780-2015
  Botkin, Frances R.
  

  ISBN:

  9780813587394 (hardback)

  ISBN:

  9780813587387 (paperback)

  ISBN:

  9780813587400

  Personal Author:

  Botkin, Frances R.

  Title:

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

  Publication Info:

  New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

  Physical descrip:

  vii, 227 pages ; 24 cm.

  Series:

  (Critical Caribbean studies)

  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.

  Personal subject:

  Mansong, Jack, -1781--In literature.

  Personal subject:

  Mansong, Jack, -1781--Legends.

  Subject term:

  Jamaican literature--History and criticism.

  Subject term:

  English literature--History and criticism.

  Subject term:

  American literature--History and criticism.

  Subject term:

  Legends--Jamaica.

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