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Grotesque touch : women, violence, and contemporary circum-Caribbean narratives
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ISBN: 9781469664637 9781469664644 9781469664651 Year: 2021 Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. The University of North Carolina Press

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Grotesque touch : women, violence, and contemporary circum-Caribbean narratives
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ISBN: 9798890862235 1469664666 9781469664668 9781469664637 1469664631 9781469664644 146966464X Year: 2021 Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press,

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"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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