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12 Years a Slave
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Product details
- ISBN 9781469664637
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 27 Sep 2021
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Amy K. King is a lecturer in English at Auburn University.
