TY  - GEN
T1  - Grotesque touch  : women, violence, and contemporary circum-Caribbean narratives
A1  - King, Amy K.
LA  - English
PP  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1268256871
AB  - "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"--
CN  - P94.5.W652 U6545 2021eb
SN  - 9781469664668
SN  - 1469664666
SN  - 9781469664637
SN  - 1469664631
SN  - 9781469664644
SN  - 146966464X
KW  - Women in popular culture : United States.
KW  - Women in popular culture : Caribbean Area.
KW  - Violence in women in popular culture : United States.
KW  - Violence in women in popular culture : Caribbean Area.
KW  - Slavery : History.
KW  - Plantations in literature.
KW  - Plantations in art.
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Femmes dans la culture populaire : États-Unis.
KW  - Femmes dans la culture populaire : Caraïbes (Région)
KW  - Plantations dans la littérature.
KW  - Plantations dans l'art.
KW  - Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women
KW  - Plantations in art
KW  - Plantations in literature
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Violence in women in popular culture
KW  - Women in popular culture
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - United States
KW  - Literature: history & criticism.
KW  - Literature.
KW  - History
KW  - Literary criticism.
KW  - Critiques littéraires.
ER  -