Grotesque Touch : Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives
by
Amy King
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1469664631
ISBN-13
9781469664637
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint
The University of North Carolina Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 27th, 2021
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
530 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.50 x 1.70 cms
Ksh 14,200.00
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Examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Amy King's work goes beyond any other study to date to examine the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, and nationality in US and Caribbean depictions of violence between women in the wake of slavery.
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.
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