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Vénus noire : black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France /

"Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, Robin, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2020]
Colección:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Black women in the French imaginary
  • The tale of three women: the biographies
  • Entering darkness: colonial anxieties and the cultural production of Sarah Baartmann
  • Ourika mania: cultural consumption of (dis)remembered blackness
  • Jeanne Duval: site of memory
  • Conclusion: Vénus noire.