ISBN:
9781469664668
,
9781469664651
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 231 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als King, Amy K. Grotesque touch
DDC:
302.23082
Keywords:
Women in popular culture
;
Women in popular culture
;
Violence in women in popular culture
;
Violence in women in popular culture
;
Slavery History
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Plantations in literature
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Plantations in art
;
Power (Social sciences)
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Electronic books
;
USA
;
Gewalt
;
Sklaverei
;
Frau
;
Künste
;
Karibik
Abstract:
Cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Depicting Violence between Women in Circum-Caribbean Texts -- Chapter One. Sensational Violence -- Chapter Two. Within and Beyond Sadistic Violence -- Chapter Three. Un-Silencing Sexual Violence -- Chapter Four. Violent Denial in Post-Emancipation Households -- Chapter Five. The Horror of Intimate Violence -- Conclusion. Plantation Settings after 2016 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469664644.001.0001
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