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Grotesque touch : women, violence, and contemporary circum-Caribbean narratives / Amy K. King.
Van Pelt Library P94.5.W652 U6545 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Amy K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in popular culture--United States.
- Women in popular culture.
- Violence in women in popular culture.
- United States.
- Women in popular culture--Caribbean Area.
- Violence in women in popular culture--United States.
- Violence in women in popular culture--Caribbean Area.
- Slavery--History.
- Slavery.
- History.
- Plantations in literature.
- Plantations in art.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Caribbean Area.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Grotesque touch women, violence, & contemporary circum-Caribbean narratives
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, television shows, novels, short stories, poems, book covers, and paintings, King shows how contemporary media reuse salacious and stereotypical depictions of relationships between women living within the plantation system to confront its legacy in the present. The vestiges of these relationships--enslavers and enslaved women, employers and domestic servants, lovers and rivals--negate characters' efforts to imagine non-abusive approaches to power and agency. King's work goes beyond any other study to date to examine the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, and nationality in U.S. and Caribbean depictions of violence between women in the wake of slavery"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Sensational Violence
- ch. Two Within and Beyond Sadistic Violence
- ch. Three Un-Silencing Sexual Violence
- ch. Four Violent Denial in Post-Emancipation Households
- ch. Five The Horror of Intimate Violence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469664637
- 1469664631
- 9781469664644
- 146966464X
- OCLC:
- 1244883108
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