Broadview Editions Ser.: Obi : Or, the History of Three-Fingered Jack by William Earle (Trade Paperback)

Broadview Press

1551116693

9781551116693

46453930

Obi : Or, the History of Three-Fingered Jack

William Earle

Trade Paperback

English

Literary, Historical

Fiction

255 Pages

8.5in

0.6in

5.5in

12.8 Oz

Ps1567.E156o25 2005

This truly innovative edition of a compelling novel about eighteenth-century slave rebellions in Jamaica provides a valuable and necessary context for the complicated politics of obeah. Aravamudan's introduction attends to the ways in which obeah is an epistemological model competing with Enlightenment reason, and demonstrates with meticulous detail how it functions as a form of resistant cultural, political, religious, and medical knowledge. The appendices complement Aravamudan's frame for the novel, making this edition one that will appeal equally to general readers and scholars of post-colonial studies.

Acknowledgements Introduction Timeline of Historical and Literary Events Surrounding New World Slavery, Abolitionism, and Obeah, 1492-1838 A Note on the Text Obi; or, the History of Three-fingered Jack Appendix A: Historical Sources on Obeah From Benjamin Moseley, A Treatise on Sugar(1799) From House of Commons Sessional Papers(1789) From Matthew Gregory Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor, Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica(1834) Appendix B: Accounts of Tacky's Rebellion (1760) From Edward Long, The History of Jamaica(1774) From Bryan Edwards, Observations on the Disposition, Character, Manners, and Habits of Life, of the Maroons(1796) Appendix C: Literary Treatments of Obeah From James Grainger, The Sugar Cane: A Poem. In Four Books(1764) John Fawcett, Obi; or,Three-Finger'd Jack: A Serio-Pantomime, in Two Acts(1800) From Maria Edgeworth, "The Grateful Negro," Popular Tales(1804) Select Bibliography

2005

2006-271333

813/.2

Broadview Editions Ser.

22

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