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  1. Grotesque touch
    women, violence, and contemporary circum-Caribbean narratives
    Author: King, Amy K.
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Georg Forster-Gebäude / USA-Bibliothek
    810.93522 KIN
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781469664644; 9781469664637
    RVK Categories: LO 97100
    Subjects: Künste; Frau <Motiv>; Sklaverei <Motiv>; Gewalt <Motiv>
    Scope: xiii, 231 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 203-220

  2. Grotesque touch
    women, violence, and contemporary circum-Caribbean narratives
    Author: King, Amy K.
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    "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... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781469664644; 9781469664637
    Subjects: Künste; Frau <Motiv>; Sklaverei <Motiv>; Gewalt <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Women in popular culture / United States; Women in popular culture / Caribbean Area; Violence in women in popular culture / United States; Violence in women in popular culture / Caribbean Area; Slavery / History; Plantations in literature; Plantations in art; Power (Social sciences); Slavery; Violence in women in popular culture; Women in popular culture; Caribbean Area; United States; History
    Scope: xiii, 231 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Depicting violence between women in circum-Caribbean texts -- Sensational violence -- Within and beyond sadistic violence -- Un-silencing sexual violence -- Violent denial in post-emancipation households -- The horror of intimate violence -- Plantation settings after 2016

  3. Grotesque touch
    women, violence, and contemporary circum-Caribbean narratives
    Author: King, Amy K.
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

    Depicting violence between women in circum-Caribbean texts -- Sensational violence -- Within and beyond sadistic violence -- Un-silencing sexual violence -- Violent denial in post-emancipation households -- The horror of intimate violence --... more

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
    03.h.0241
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2021 A 9599
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    Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) / Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
    ET/96/1354
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    Depicting violence between women in circum-Caribbean texts -- Sensational violence -- Within and beyond sadistic violence -- Un-silencing sexual violence -- Violent denial in post-emancipation households -- The horror of intimate violence -- Plantation settings after 2016. "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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781469664644; 9781469664637
    RVK Categories: HQ 7040
    Subjects: Women in popular culture; Women in popular culture; Violence in women in popular culture; Violence in women in popular culture; Slavery; Plantations in literature; Plantations in art; Power (Social sciences)
    Scope: xiii, 231 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 203-220. Index