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Vénus noire black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France
Title
Vénus noire [electronic resource] : black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France / Robin Mitchell.
ISBN
9780820354330
0820354333
9780820354323
0820354325
9780820354316
0820354317
Publication
Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2020]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 17, 2020).
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Variant and related titles
Black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France
Other formats
Print version: Mitchell, Robin, 1962- Vénus noire. Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 20, 2021
Series
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Black women in the French imaginary
The tale of three women: the biographies
Entering darkness: colonial anxieties and the cultural production of Sarah Baartmann
Ourika mania: cultural consumption of (dis)remembered blackness
Jeanne Duval: site of memory
Conclusion: Vénus noire.
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