Sharpley-Whiting / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Black Venus

Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8279-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Explores the treatment and image of the black female or "Black Venus" as seen in early 19th French literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharpley-Whiting, Tracey Denean

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Sharpley-Whiting

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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, 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 Notes Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Associate Professor of French, Film Studies, Comparative Literature, and African American Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms and coeditor of Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions and Fanon: A Critical Reader.