Grotesque touch : women, violence, and contemporary circum-Caribbean narratives / Amy K. King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Amy K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence in women in popular culture--Caribbean Area.

Violence in women in popular culture.

Violence in women in popular culture--United States.

Women in popular culture--Caribbean Area.

Women in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

The University of North Carolina Press

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : 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:

Depicting violence between women in circum-Caribbean texts

Sensational violence

Within and beyond sadistic violence

Un-silencing sexual violence

Violent denial in post-emancipation households

The horror of intimate violence

Plantation settings after 2016.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908622-2-8

1-4696-6465-8

979-88-908622-3-5

1-4696-6466-6

OCLC:

1268256871