Grotesque Touch
Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives
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Word Count
62,000 words, Guess
Page Count
248 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781469664644
- ISBN-10146966464X
- Library of Congress Control Number2021026150
- OCLC Control Number1244883108
- Better World Books9781469664644
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL34141600M
Classifications
- LCCP94.5.W652 U6545 2021
Description
"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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