| Control Number | muse61491 |
| Control Number Identifier | MdBmJHUP |
| Date and Time of Latest Transaction | 20180201030003.0 |
| General Information | 171130s2017 nju o 00 0 eng d |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780813587417 |
| | 0813587417 |
| | 9780813587400 |
| | 9780813587394 |
| System Control Number | (OCoLC)1013988631 |
| Cataloging Source | MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP |
| Library of Congress Call Number | PN57.M23 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 809/.93351 23 |
| Main Entry - Personal Name | Botkin, Frances R., author. |
| Title Statement | Thieving Three-Fingered Jack [electronic resource] : Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780-2015 / Frances R. Botkin |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (1 online resource.) |
| Series Statement | Critical Caribbean studies |
| Summary, Etc. | "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 |
| Subject Added Entry - Personal Name | Mansong, Jack, -- -1781 -- Legends |
| | Mansong, Jack, -- -1781 -- In literature |
| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws. -- bisacsh |
| | HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General. -- bisacsh |
| | LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. -- bisacsh |
| | Legends -- Jamaica |
| | American literature -- History and criticism |
| | English literature -- History and criticism |
| | Jamaican literature -- History and criticism |
| Index Term - Genre/Form | Electronic books. -- local |
| Added Entry - Corporate Name | Project Muse |
