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Exploring the Black Venus figure in aesthetic practices /
'Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices' critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the 2002 repatriation of the remains of Sara Baartman to post-apartheid South Africa, the int...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill Rodopi,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
210. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Refiguring Black Venus: preliminary considerations / Jorunn S. Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt and Zeljka Svrjuga
- Venus from A to Z in Beryl Gilroy's Inkle and Yarico / Zeljka Svrljuga
- H.C. Andersen's Black Venus fairy tale: "The Marsh King's Daughter" and the aftermath of Danish colonialism / Kjersti Aarstein
- The finger that mocks the world: Kara Walker's Sugar Baby and images of African American womanhood / Carmen Birkle
- The Italian gaze on Black Venus / Camilla Erichsen Skalle
- The voice of Venus: Angela Carter's "Black Venus" and the democratization of literature / Kari Jegerstedt
- Epic theatre and the culture of spectacle: aesthetic figuration of body and race in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus / Ljubica Matek
- The wild woman, the little mistress, the Hottentot Venus, and the pedestal monster: living curiosities and their counter-spaces in two texts by Charles Baudelaire / Margery Vibe Skagen
- Colonial bodies in display cases and spectating bodies: a contemporary art critique / Ulla Angkjœ Jørgensen
- Gazes, faces, hands: othering objectification and spectatorial surrender in Abdellatif Kechiche's Vénus noire and Carl Th. Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc / Jorunn S. Gjerden