Grotesque Touch

Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives

By: Amy King

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Hardcover | 27 September 2021

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248 Pages

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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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Grotesque Touch offer[s] a window into the exceptional and eye opening critique of violence among women . . . King takes seriously her subject matter and reads it richly across archives that might otherwise be siloed from one another."--American Literary History
A deeply researched, historically contextualized, and effectively argued work that takes seriously women's violence in a range of texts--fictional, visual, and audiovisual."--Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature

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