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

by Amy King

Book Overview

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"