Tracey Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Black Venus

Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Intellectually rigorous, extremely well written, and solidly arguing against the dated French (and European) conceptualizations of black female sexuality. What a refreshing and much needed addition!"--Marjorie Attignol Salvodon, Connecticut College

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780822323402
• ISBN-10: 0822323400
• Artikelnr.: 22015704

Autorenporträt

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Theorizing Black Venus 1
Writing Sex, Writing DIfference: Creating the Master Text on the Hottentot
Venus 16
Representing Sarah- Same Difference or No Difference at All? La Vénus
hottentote, ou haine au Françaises 32
"The Other Woman": Reading a Body of Difference in Balzac's La Fille aux
Yeux d'or 42
Black Blood, White Masks, and Négresse Sexuality in de Pon's Ourika,
l'Africaine 52
Black Is the Difference: Identity, Colonialism, and Fetishism in La Belle
Dorothée 62
Desirous and Dangerous Imaginations:: The Black Female Body and the
Courtesan in Zola's Thérèse Raquin 71
Can a White Man Love a Black Woman? Perversions of Love beyond the Plae in
Maupassant's "Boitelle" 86
Bamboulas, Bacchanals, and Dark Veils over Whtie Memories in Loti's Le
Roman d'un spahi 91
Cinematic Venus in the Africanist Orient 105
Epilogue 119
Appendix: The Hottentot Venus, or Hatred of Frenchwomen 127
Notes 165
Works Cited 177
Index 185