Thieving Three-Fingered Jack - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thieving Three-Fingered Jack write by Frances R. Botkin. This book was released on 2017-12-31. Thieving Three-Fingered Jack available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1 write by Evelyn O'Callaghan. This book was released on 2021-01-14. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century write by Katrin Berndt. This book was released on 2022-07-18. Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation write by Lenora Hanson. This book was released on 2022-11-22. The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Negotiating Freedom in the Circum-Caribbean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negotiating Freedom in the Circum-Caribbean write by Helen M. McKee. This book was released on 2019-02-05. Negotiating Freedom in the Circum-Caribbean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
