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

By: Publisher: Description: xiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781469664637
  • 9781469664644
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/3522 23 K52
LOC classification:
  • P94.5.W652 U6545 2021
Contents:
Depicting violence between women in circum-Caribbean texts -- Sensational violence -- Within and beyond sadistic violence -- Un-silencing sexual violence -- Violent denial in post-emancipation households -- The horror of intimate violence -- Plantation settings after 2016.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Depicting violence between women in circum-Caribbean texts -- Sensational violence -- Within and beyond sadistic violence -- Un-silencing sexual violence -- Violent denial in post-emancipation households -- The horror of intimate violence -- Plantation settings after 2016.

"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.