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Grotesque Touch : Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives
Author
Title
Grotesque Touch : Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives / Amy K. King.
ISBN
9781469664668
9781469664637
9781469664651
9781469664644
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (248 pages).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Cover
Half title page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Depicting Violence between Women in Circum-Caribbean Texts
Chapter One. Sensational Violence
Chapter Two. Within and Beyond Sadistic Violence
Chapter Three. Un-Silencing Sexual Violence
Chapter Four. Violent Denial in Post-Emancipation Households
Chapter Five. The Horror of Intimate Violence
Conclusion. Plantation Settings after 2016
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