Book ID: CBB000082666

Black Venus: Sexualized savages, primal fears, and primitive narratives in French (1999)

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Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: xii + 190 pp.; notes; bibl.; index

Description A study of the representation of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of 19th-century France.


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Authors & Contributors
Savitt, Todd Lee
Zamir, Shamoon
Williams, Elizabeth A.
Wilkinson, Doris Y.
Stone, Andrea
Sibeud, Emmanuelle
Concepts
African races
Medicine
African Americans and science
Slavery and slaves
Exhibits
Social relations; social groups
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
France
North America
British Isles
Caribbean
Great Britain
Institutions
Harvard University
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