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Black Venus : Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French /
Explores the treatment and image of the black female or "Black Venus" as seen in early 19th French literature.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Theorizing Black Venus
- 1 Writing Sex, Writing Difference: Creating the Master Text on the Hottentot Venus
- 2 Representing Sarah-Same Difference or No Difference at All? La Venus hottentote, ou haine aux Françaises
- 3 The Other Woman: Reading a Body of Difference in Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or
- 4 Black Blood, White Masks, and Negresse Sexuality in de Pons's Ourika, l'Africaine
- 5 Black Is the Difference: Identity, Colonialism, and Fetishism in La Belle Dorothee
- 6 Desirous and Dangerous Imaginations: The Black Female Body and the Courtesan in Zola's Therese Raquin
- 7 Can a White Man Love a Black Woman? Perversions of Love beyond the Pale in Maupassant's Boitelle
- 8 Bamboulas, Bacchanals, and Dark Veils over White Memories in Loti's Le Roman d'un spahi
- 9 Cinematic Venus in the Africanist Orient
- Epilogue
- Appendix: The Hottentot Venus, or Hatred of Frenchwomen.