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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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | E-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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 Vénus 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 Négresse Sexuality in de Pons's Ourika, l'Africaine
- 5 Black Is the Difference: Identity, Colonialism, and Fetishism in La Belle Dorothée
- 6 Desirous and Dangerous Imaginations: The Black Female Body and the Courtesan in Zola's Thérèse 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.
