Author: Amy King
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469664658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
Grotesque Touch
Author: Amy King
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469664658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469664658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
Paul Carah, Cornishman
Author: Charles Lee
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Isabel Allende
Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Isabel Allende--"la Famosa" to her fellow Chileans--is the world's most widely read Spanish language author. Her career coincides with the emergence of multiculturalism and global feminism, and her powerfully honest, revelatory works touch the pulse points of humankind. Her bravura study of the interwoven roles of women in family history opens the minds of outsiders to the sufferings of women and their children during years of social and political nightmare. This reference work provides an introduction to Allende's life as well as a guided overview of her body of work. Designed for the fan and scholar alike, this text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Allende canon, including fictional characters, motifs, historical events and themes. A comprehensive index is included.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Isabel Allende--"la Famosa" to her fellow Chileans--is the world's most widely read Spanish language author. Her career coincides with the emergence of multiculturalism and global feminism, and her powerfully honest, revelatory works touch the pulse points of humankind. Her bravura study of the interwoven roles of women in family history opens the minds of outsiders to the sufferings of women and their children during years of social and political nightmare. This reference work provides an introduction to Allende's life as well as a guided overview of her body of work. Designed for the fan and scholar alike, this text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Allende canon, including fictional characters, motifs, historical events and themes. A comprehensive index is included.
Murder & Its Motives
Author: Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse
Publisher:
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Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The Leisure Hour
Author:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Sketches of Life and Character in Hungary
Author: Margaret Fletcher
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Category : Hungary
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : Hungary
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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The Red Glutton
Author: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
High quality reprint of The Red Glutton: Impressions of War Written at and near the Front by Irvin S. Cobb.
Publisher: Classic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
High quality reprint of The Red Glutton: Impressions of War Written at and near the Front by Irvin S. Cobb.
The Speaker
Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Languages : en
Pages : 722
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The Classical Review
Author:
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Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This companion to the Classical Quarterly contains reviews of new work dealing with the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Over 300 books are reviewed each year.
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Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This companion to the Classical Quarterly contains reviews of new work dealing with the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Over 300 books are reviewed each year.
Grotesque
Author: Natsuo Kirino
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307267296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward Kazue Sato floats around among them, trying to fit in.Years later, Yuriko and Kazue are dead — both have become prostitutes and both have been brutally murdered. Natsuo Kirino, celebrated author of Out, seamlessly weaves together the stories of these women’s struggles within the conventions and restrictions of Japanese society. At once a psychological investigation of the pressures facing Japanese women and a classic work of noir fiction, Grotesque is a brilliantly twisted novel of ambition, desire, beauty, cruelty, and identity by one of our most electrifying writers.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307267296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward Kazue Sato floats around among them, trying to fit in.Years later, Yuriko and Kazue are dead — both have become prostitutes and both have been brutally murdered. Natsuo Kirino, celebrated author of Out, seamlessly weaves together the stories of these women’s struggles within the conventions and restrictions of Japanese society. At once a psychological investigation of the pressures facing Japanese women and a classic work of noir fiction, Grotesque is a brilliantly twisted novel of ambition, desire, beauty, cruelty, and identity by one of our most electrifying writers.