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Author : Frances R. Botkin
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-31
Thieving Three Fingered Jack written by Frances R. Botkin and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Thieving Three Fingered Jack
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Author : Frances R. Botkin
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-31
Thieving Three Fingered Jack written by Frances R. Botkin and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Caribbean Literature In Transition 1800 1920 Volume 1
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Author : Evelyn O'Callaghan
language : en
Publisher: Caribbean Literature in Transi
Release Date : 2021-01-14
Caribbean Literature In Transition 1800 1920 Volume 1 written by Evelyn O'Callaghan and has been published by Caribbean Literature in Transi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Literary Collections categories.
This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800-1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.
Handbook Of The British Novel In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Katrin Berndt
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-07-18
Handbook Of The British Novel In The Long Eighteenth Century written by Katrin Berndt and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
The handbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the British novel in the long eighteenth century, when this genre emerged to develop into the period’s most versatile and popular literary form. Part I features six systematic chapters that discuss literary, intellectual, socio-economic, and political contexts, providing innovative approaches to issues such as sense and sentiment, gender considerations, formal characteristics, economic history, enlightened and radical concepts of citizenship and human rights, ecological ramifications, and Britain’s growing global involvement. Part II presents twenty-five analytical chapters that attend to individual novels, some canonical and others recently recovered. These analyses engage the debates outlined in the systematic chapters, undertaking in-depth readings that both contextualize the works and draw on relevant criticism, literary theory, and cultural perspectives. The handbook’s breadth and depth, clear presentation, and lucid language make it attractive and accessible to scholar and student alike.
The Romantic Rhetoric Of Accumulation
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Author : Lenora Hanson
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-22
The Romantic Rhetoric Of Accumulation written by Lenora Hanson and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today. Lenora Hanson glimpses histories of subsistence (such as reproductive labor, vagrancy and criminality, and unwaged labor) as figural ways of living that are superfluous—simultaneously more than enough to live and less than what is necessary for capitalism. Hanson treats rhetorical language as an archive of capital's accumulation through dispossession, in works by S.T. Coleridge, Edmund Burke, Mary Robinson, William Wordsworth, Benjamin Moseley, Joseph Priestley, and Alexander von Humboldt, as well as in contemporary film and critical theory. Reading riots through apostrophe, enclosure through anachronism, superstition and witchcraft through tautology, and the paradoxical coincidence of subsistence living with industrialization, Hanson shows the figural to be a material record of the survival of non-capitalist forms of life within capitalism. But this survival is not always-already resistant to capitalism, nor are the origins of capital accumulation confined to the Romantic past. Hanson reveals rhetorical figure as entwined in deeply ambivalent ways with the circuitous, ongoing process of dispossession. Reading both historically and rhetorically, Hanson argues that rhetorical language records histories of dispossession and the racialized, gendered distribution of the labor of subsistence. Romanticism, they show, is more contemporary than ever.
Negotiating Freedom In The Circum Caribbean
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Author : Helen M. McKee
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-02-05
Negotiating Freedom In The Circum Caribbean written by Helen M. McKee and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-05 with History categories.
Bringing together Jamaican Maroons and indigenous communities into one framework – for the first time – McKee compares and contrasts how these non-white, semi-autonomous communities were ultimately reduced by Anglophone colonists. In particular, questions are asked about Maroon and Creek interaction with Anglophone communities, slave-catching, slave ownership, land conflict and dispute resolution to conclude that, while important divergences occurred, commonalities can be drawn between Maroon history and Native American history and that, therefore, we should do more to draw Maroon communities into debates of indigenous issues.
Becoming Ira Aldridge A Black Shakespearean Actor In Nineteenth Century Ireland
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Author : Christine Kinealy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-18
Becoming Ira Aldridge A Black Shakespearean Actor In Nineteenth Century Ireland written by Christine Kinealy and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-18 with History categories.
This study throws light on a little-studied but emerging field within Irish studies: Black history. It focuses on an American-born Black Shakespearean actor, Ira Aldridge, who, to follow his vocation and escape prejudice in America, travelled to England in 1824, aged only 17. Despite some racial stereotyping, his rise to prominence in the theatrical world was meteoric. Until his premature death in 1867, he played to audiences throughout Europe—from Galway in Ireland to St Petersburg in Russia—winning plaudits and accolades, and recognition as the leading Shakespearean tragedian of the day. Aldridge was not just an actor; wherever he performed, he also delivered a message about the cruelty of enslavement and the need for Black equality. This publication focuses on Aldridge’s special relationship with Ireland and its theatrical traditions over a period of three decades.
Billy Waters Is Dancing
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Author : Mary L. Shannon
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-11
Billy Waters Is Dancing written by Mary L. Shannon and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of William Waters, Black street performer in Regency London, and how his huge celebrity took on a life of its own Every child in Regency London knew Billy Waters, the celebrated “King of the Beggars.” Likely born into enslavement in 1770s New York, he became a Royal Navy sailor. After losing his leg in a fall from the rigging, the talented and irrepressible Waters became London’s most famous street performer. His extravagantly costumed image blazed across the stage and in print to an unprecedented degree. For all his contemporary renown, Waters died destitute in 1823—but his legend would live on for decades. Mary L. Shannon’s biography draws together surviving traces of Waters’ life to bring us closer to the historical figure underlying them. Considering Waters’ influence on the London stage and his echoing resonances in visual art, and writing by Douglass, Dickens, and Thackeray, Shannon asks us to reconsider Black presences in nineteenth-century popular culture. This is a vital attempt to recover a life from historical obscurity—and a fascinating account of what it meant to find fame in the Regency metropolis.
Strolling Players Of Empire
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Author : Kathleen Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-01
Strolling Players Of Empire written by Kathleen Wilson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-01 with History categories.
Why did Britons get up a play wherever they went? Kathleen Wilson reveals how the performance of English theater and a theatricalized way of viewing the world shaped the geopolitics and culture of empire in the long eighteenth century. Ranging across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans to encompass Kingston, Calcutta, Fort Marlborough, St. Helena and Port Jackson as well as London and provincial towns, she shows how Britons on the move transformed peripheries into historical stages where alternative collectivities were enacted, imagined and lived. Men and women of various ethnicities, classes and legal statuses produced and performed English theater in the world, helping to consolidate a national and imperial culture. The theater of empire also enabled non-British people to adapt or interpret English cultural traditions through their own performances, as Englishness also became a production of non-English peoples across the globe.
The Cyborg Caribbean
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Author : Samuel Ginsburg
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-11
The Cyborg Caribbean written by Samuel Ginsburg and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro Cabiya, Alexandra Pagan-Velez, and Vagabond Beaumont to Yasmin Silvia Portales, Erick Mota, and Yoss, Haris Durrani, and Rita Indiana Hernandez, among others, negotiate rhetorical legacies of historical techno-colonialism and techno-authoritarianism. The authors span the Hispanic Caribbean and their respective diasporas, reflecting how science fiction as a genre has the ability to manipulate political borders. As both a literary and historical study, the book traces four different technologies—electroconvulsive therapy, nuclear weapons, space exploration, and digital avatars—that have transformed understandings of corporality and humanity in the Caribbean. By recognizing the ways that increased technology may amplify the marginalization of bodies based on race, gender, sexuality, and other factors, the science fiction texts studied in this book challenge oppressive narratives that link technological and sociopolitical progress. .