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Jamaican literature. --- English literature --- Jamaican authors --- Jamaica

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Making History Happen: Caribbean Poetry in America examines Lorna Goodison's Turn Thanks (1999), McCallum's The Water Between Us (1999), and Claudia Rankine's Plot (2001) and Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004). Engaging familiar themes and issues of time, language, and identity, the readings focus on "Signifying" moments in the works of the poets under discussion. Reflecting on some of the ways that transnational women poets of the black diaspora are using tropes of mobility to create a renewed sense of identity and a sense of belonging to a communal network, the readings also demonstrate that the

American literature --- American poetry --- Jamaican poetry --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Jamaican literature --- Caribbean American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors, Black --- Women authors --- Goodison, Lorna. --- McCallum, Shara, --- Rankine, Claudia,

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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.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws. --- HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. --- Legends --- American literature --- English literature --- Jamaican literature --- Folk tales --- Traditions --- Urban legends --- Folklore --- History and criticism. --- Jamaican authors --- Mansong, Jack, --- Three-finger'd Jack, --- Three-fingered Jack, --- Threefingered Jack, --- Legends. --- In literature. --- Caribbean. --- freedom fighter. --- jack mansong. --- jamaica. --- mansong. --- outlaw. --- rebel. --- thief.