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Black Venus
Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French
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English
Published/Copyright:
1999
About this book
Explores the treatment and image of the black female or "Black Venus" as seen in early 19th French literature.
Author / Editor information
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Associate Professor of French, Film Studies, Comparative Literature, and African American Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms and coeditor of Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions and Fanon: A Critical Reader.
Reviews
“A cogently argued study of representations of black women in French literature. In locating the Black Venus and the ideologies surrounding and informing her representations at the center of literary and cultural narratives, this book makes significant interventions in nineteenth-century French studies and current race and gender studies.”—Thadious M. Davis, Vanderbilt University
“Intellectually rigorous, extremely well written, and solidly arguing against the dated French (and European) conceptualizations of black female sexuality. What a refreshing and much needed addition!”—Marjorie Attignol Salvodon, Connecticut College
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Theorizing Black Venus
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1. Writing Sex, Writing Difference: Creating the Master Text on the Hottentot Venus
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2. Representing Sarah-Same Difference or No Difference at All? La Venus hottentote, ou haine aux Franfaises
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3. "The Other Woman": Reading a Body of Difference in Balzac's La Fille auxyeux d'or
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4. Black Blood, White Masks, and Negresse Sexuality in de Pons's Ourika, l'Africaine
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5. Black Is the Difference: Identity, Colonialism, and Fetishism in La Belle Dorothee
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6. Desirous and Dangerous Imaginations: The Black Female Body and the Courtesan in Zola's Therese Raquin
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7. Can a White Man Love a Black Woman? Perversions of Love beyond the Pale in Maupassant's "Boitelle"
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8. Bamboulas, Bacchanals, and Dark Veils over White Memories in Loti's Le Roman d'un spahi
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9. Cinematic Venus in the Africanist Orient
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Epilogue
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Appendix: The Hottentot Venus, or Hatred of Frenchwomen
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 19, 1999
eBook ISBN:
9780822382799
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
208
Other:
5 photographs, 1 table
