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Black Venus, 2010 : they called her "Hottentot" /
Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus."
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
Temple University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: The Venus Hottentot (1825) / Elizabeth Alexander
- Introduction: The notion of Venus / Deborah Willis
- part 1. Sarah Baartman in Context. The Hottentot and the prostitute: toward an iconography of female sexuality / Sander Gilman ; Another means of understanding the gaze: Sarah Bartmann in the development of nineteenth-century French national identity / Robin Mitchell ; Which bodies matter? Feminism, post-structuralism, race, and the curious theoretical odyssey of the "Hottentot Venus" / Zine Magubane ; Exhibit A: Private life without a narrative / J. Yolande Daniels ; crucifix / Holly Bass
- part 2. Sarah Baartman's Legacy in Art and Art History. Historic retrievals: confronting visual evidence and the imagining of truth / Lisa Gail Collins ; Reclaiming Venus: the presence of Sarah Bartmann in contemporary art / Debra S. Singer ; Playing with Venus: Black women artists and the Venus trope in contemporary visual art / Kianga K. Ford ; Talk of town / Manthia Diawara ; The "Hottentot Venus" in Canada: modernism, censorship, and the racial limits of female sexuality / Charmaine Nelson ; A.K.A. Saartjie: the "Hottentot Venus" in context (some recollections and a dialogue), 1998/2004 / Kellie Jones ; little sarah / Linda Susan Jackson
- part 3. Sarah Baartman and Black Women as Public Spectacle. The greatest show on earth: for Saartjie Baartman, Joice Heth, Anarcha of Alabama, Truuginini, and us all / Nikky Finney ; The imperial gaze: Venus Hottentot, human display, and world's fairs / Michele Wallace ; Cinderella tours Europe / Cheryl Finley ; Mirror sisters: Aunt Jemima as the antonym/extension of Saartjie Bartmann / Michael D. Harris ; My wife as Venus / E. Ethelbert Miller
- part 4. Iconic Women in the Twentieth Century. agape / Holly Bass ; Black/female/bodies carnivalized in spectacle and space / Carole Boyce Davies ; Sighting the "real" Josephine Baker: methods and issues of Black star studies / Terri Francis ; The hoodrat theory / William Jelani Cobb ; Epilogue: I've come to take you home (tribute to Sarah Bartmann written in Holland, June 1998) / Diana Ferrus.