Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

208 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Black Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory articulated in t...

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