The book opens with an exploration of scientific discourse on black females, using Sarah Bartmann, the so-called Hottentot Venus, and natural scientist Georges Cuvier as points of departure. By inspiring repulsion, attraction, and anxiety, they gave rise in the nineteenth-century French male imagination to the primitive narrative of Black Venus. Denean Sharpley-Whiting argues that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory articulated in the works of Frantz Fanon and Toni Morrison, T. Labor and Working-Class History Associationīlack Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses. Permissions Information for Journal Authors.
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