{"product_id":"thieving-three-fingered-jack-transatlantic-tales-of-a-jamaican-outlaw-1780-2015-hardback-9780813587394","title":"Thieving Three-Fingered Jack; Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015 (Hardback) 9780813587394","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThieving Three-Fingered Jack\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTransatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrances R. Botkin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813587394\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 5 images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.481 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"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. In \u003ci\u003eThieving Three-Fingered Jack\u003c\/i\u003e, Frances Botkin gives us an extraordinary study for understanding transatlantic literary relations. 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e - Michael Gamer (associate professor of English, University of Pennsylvania) \u003cdiv\u003e\"With its seamless blending of disciplinary methods, \u003ci\u003eThieving Three-Fingered Jack\u003c\/i\u003e explains how a fugitive slave became a transatlantic legend. Botkin moves transhistorically and transnationally to describe how Jack became a fictional and theatrical icon. In the process, she highlights the many insights made possible when folklore and literary studies converge.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e - Daphne Lamothe (author of Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw\u003c\/i\u003e] discusses plays and songs written about Jack Mansong, an escaped slave turned bandit who came to be revered as a freedom fighter in Jamaica for his attacks on colonial planters.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"http:\/\/www.choice360.org\/blog\/forthcoming-african-american-studies-titles-2018\"'\u003eForthcoming African American Studies Titles, 2018: A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through October 2018.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrances 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563713917208,"sku":"9780813587394","price":119.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/thieving-three-fingered-jack-transatlantic-tales-of-a-jamaican-outlaw-1780-2015-hardback-9780813587394","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}