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Author King, Amy K., author.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

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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 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P
Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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.
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Subject Women in popular culture -- United States.
Women in popular culture.
United States.
Women in popular culture -- Caribbean Area.
Caribbean Area.
Violence in women in popular culture -- United States.
Violence in women in popular culture.
Violence in women in popular culture -- Caribbean Area.
Slavery -- History.
Slavery.
History.
Plantations in literature.
Plantations in literature.
Plantations in art.
Plantations in art.
Power (Social sciences)
Power (Social sciences)
LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women.
Genre/Form History.
Added Title Grotesque touch women, violence, & contemporary circum-Caribbean narratives
Other Form: Print version: 9781469664637 1469664631 9781469664644 146966464X (DLC) 2021026150 (OCoLC)1244883108
ISBN 9781469664668 (electronic book)
1469664666 (electronic book)
9781469664637
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9781469664644
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