Grotesque Touch : Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives

Name: Grotesque Touch
Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
SKU: 9781469664644
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ISBN: 9781469664644

by Amy King

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 146966464X

ISBN-13 9781469664644

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 374 grams

Dimensions 23.30 x 15.50 x 1.40 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: general History of the Americas Slavery & abolition of slavery Gender studies, gender groups Gender studies, gender groups History of the Americas Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

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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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