{"product_id":"thieving-threefingered-jack-transatlantic-tales-of-a-jamaican-outlaw-17802015-9780813587394","title":"Thieving ThreeFingered Jack  Transatlantic Tales","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBotkin has compiled and analyzed plays, novels, and folklore about Three-Fingered Jack in order to show how the story of this hero-villain has evolved as it traveled from the Caribbean to England and the United States, returning to Jamaica as a tale of heroic resistance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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   -- Michael Gamer * associate professor of English, University of Pennsylvania *\u003cbr\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   -- Daphne Lamothe * author of Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography *\u003cbr\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.\" * Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003eForthcoming African American Studies Titles, 2018: A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through October 2018. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Representing Three-Fingered Jack\u003cbr\u003e 1. Divide and Conquer: Three-Fingered Jack and the Maroons \u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Jack Is a MAN\" Prose Obis, 1800-1870\u003cbr\u003e 3. Staging \u003ci\u003eObi\u003c\/i\u003e: Three-Fingered Jack in London and New York\u003cbr\u003e 4. Being Jack Mansong: Ira Aldridge and Three-Fingered Jack\u003cbr\u003e 5. After Emancipatio: Masquerade and Miscegenation\u003cbr\u003e 6. \u003ci\u003eMansong: \u003c\/i\u003eNo Longer \"Nearly Everybody Wite\"\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: \"The Baddest Man Around\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405793141079,"sku":"9780813587394","price":105.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813587394.jpg?v=1730493639","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thieving-threefingered-jack-transatlantic-tales-of-a-jamaican-outlaw-17802015-9780813587394","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}