Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 231 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781469664668
,
9781469664651
Content:
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
Content:
"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:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781469664637
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781469664644
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe King, Amy K. Grotesque touch Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021 ISBN 9781469664644
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781469664637
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
USA
;
Gewalt
;
Sklaverei
;
Frau
;
Künste
;
Karibik
