Black Venus 2010: They Called Her Hottentot

Herausgeber: Willis, Deborah

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Produktbeschreibung

Deborah Willis is a University Professor and chair of the Photography and Imaging Department in the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences.¿ Willis is a Guggenheim, Fletcher, and MacArthur Fellow, as well as a recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation award. Willis is a photographer and curator of African American culture.¿ Her publications include Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs, The Black Female Body A Photographic History with Carla Williams (Temple); and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781439902059
• ISBN-10: 1439902054
• Artikelnr.: 27966595

Autorenporträt

Deborah Willis is a University Professor and chair of the Photography and Imaging Department in the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences.  Willis is a Guggenheim, Fletcher, and MacArthur Fellow, as well as a recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation award. Willis is a photographer and curator of African American culture.  Her publications include Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs, The Black Female Body A Photographic History with Carla Williams (Temple); and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 
Prologue: The Venus Hottentot (1825) Elizabeth Alexander 
Introduction: The Notion of Venus Deborah Willis
PART I: Sarah Baartman in Context 
1. The Hottentot and the Prostitute: Toward an Iconography of Female
Sexuality Sander Gilman 
2. Another Means of Understanding the Gaze: Sarah Bartmann in the
Development of Nineteenth-Century French National Identity Robin Mitchell 
3. Which Bodies Matter? Feminism, Post-Structuralism, Race, and the Curious
Theoretical Odyssey of the “Hottentot Venus” Zine Magubane 
4. Exhibit A: Private Life without a Narrative J. Yolande Daniels 
5. crucifix Holly Bass
PART II: Sarah Baartman’s Legacy in Art and Art History 
6. Historic Retrievals: Confronting Visual Evidence and the Imaging of
Truth Lisa Gail Collins 
7. Reclaiming Venus: The Presence of Sarah Bartmann in Contemporary Art 
Debra S. Singer 
8. Playing with Venus: Black Women Artists and the Venus Trope in
Contemporary Visual Art Kianga K. Ford 
9. Talk of the Town Manthia Diawara 
10. The “Hottentot Venus” in Canada: Modernism, Censorship, and the Racial
Limits of Female Sexuality Charmaine Nelson 
11. A.K.A. Saartjie: The “Hottentot Venus” in Context (Some Recollections
and a Dialogue), 1998/2004 Kellie Jones 
12. little sarah Linda Susan Jackson
PART III: Sarah Baartman and Black Women as Public Spectacle 
13. The Greatest Show on Earth: For Saartjie Baartman, Joice Heth, Anarcha
of Alabama, Truuginini, and Us All Nikky Finney 
14. The Imperial Gaze: Venus Hottentot, Human Display, and World’s Fairs 
Michele Wallace 
15. Cinderella Tours Europe Cheryl Finley 
16. Mirror Sisters: Aunt Jemima as the Antonym/Extension of Saartjie
Bartmann Michael D. Harris 
17. My Wife as Venus E. Ethelbert Miller
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18. agape Holly Bass 
19. Black/Female/Bodies Carnivalized in Spectacle and Space Carole Boyce
Davies 
20. Sighting the “Real” Josephine Baker: Methods and Issues of Black Star
Studies Terri Francis 
21. The Hoodrat Theory William Jelani Cobb
Epilogue: I’ve Come to Take You Home (Tribute to Sarah Bartmann Written in
Holland, June 1998) 
Bibliography 
Contributors 
Index