Grotesque Touch: Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives

by Amy King

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:146966464X

ISBN13:9781469664644

Release Date:September 2021

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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