Black Venus : Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French
T. Denean. Sharpley-Whiting
Bok Engelsk 1999 · Electronic books.
Medvirkende | Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean. (Author)
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Utgitt | Durham : : Duke University Press, , 1999.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (205 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 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, I'Africaine; 5 Black Is the Difference: Identity, Colonialism, and Fetishism in La Belle Dorothé'e. - 6 Desirous and Dangerous Imaginations: The Black Female Body and the Courtesan in Zola's Thérèse Raquin7 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; Notes; Works Cited; Index. - Explores the treatment and image of the black female or "Black Venus" as seen in early 19th French literature.
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Emner | French fiction - History and criticism
Popular culture - History - France Stereotype (Psychology) in literature Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature - History Vis mer... Women, Black, in literature
French Literature Languages & Literatures Romance Literatures svart venus kvinner litteratur frankrike |
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ISBN | 0822323079. - 0822323400
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