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Exploring The Black Venus Figure In Aesthetic Practices
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-07-15
Exploring The Black Venus Figure In Aesthetic Practices written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tracing the figure of Black Venus in literature and visual arts from different periods and geographies, Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices discusses how aesthetic practices may restore the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms.
Black Venus
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Author : Angela Carter
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-09-30
Black Venus written by Angela Carter and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-30 with Fiction categories.
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds...Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of a actor, demonstrating in every thought and deed how right his friends were when they said 'No man is safe who drinks before breakfast.' And some of these people are totally imaginary. Such as the seventeenth century whore, transported to Virginia for thieving, who turns into a good woman in spite of herself among the Indians, who have nothing worth stealing. And a girl, suckled by wolves, strange and indifferent as nature, who will not tolerate returning to humanity. Angela Carter wonderfully mingles history, fiction, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low comedy in a glorious collection of stories as full of contradictions and surprises as life itself.
Black Venus
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Author : T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1999-05-19
Black Venus written by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-19 with Social Science categories.
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 the works of Frantz Fanon and Toni Morrison, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting argues that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men. By inspiring repulsion, attraction, and anxiety, they gave rise in the nineteenth-century French male imagination to the primitive narrative of Black Venus. The book opens with an exploration of scientific discourse on black females, using Sarah Bartmann, the so-called Hottentot Venus, and natural scientist Georges Cuvier as points of departure. To further show how the image of a savage was projected onto the bodies of black women, Sharpley-Whiting moves into popular culture with an analysis of an 1814 vaudeville caricature of Bartmann, then shifts onto the terrain of canonical French literature and colonial cinema, exploring the representation of black women by Baudelaire, Balzac, Zola, Maupassant, and Loti. After venturing into twentieth-century film with an analysis of Josephine Baker’s popular Princesse Tam Tam, the study concludes with a discussion of how black Francophone women writers and activists countered stereotypical representations of black female bodies during this period. A first-time translation of the vaudeville show The Hottentot Venus, or Hatred of Frenchwomen supplements this critique of the French male gaze of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both intellectually rigorous and culturally intriguing, this study will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, feminist and gender studies, black studies, and cultural studies.
The Life Death And Life Of The Black Venus
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Author : M. Libich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
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Retracing The Black Venus
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Author : Lauren Dembowitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Retracing The Black Venus written by Lauren Dembowitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
The term Black Venus most often conjures a racist label used to overwrite Black women's humanity with stereotypical assumptions about their alleged primitive and overdeveloped sexuality. This is because studies of the Black Venus overwhelmingly focus on the figure's most iconic iteration-Sarah Baartman. Billed as the Hottentot Venus, this South African woman was put on display in London and Paris as an exotic oddity for her ample posterior (1810-1815). She later became instrumental in pseudoscientific theories of racial difference designed to affirm the allegedly superior virtue of white women. The Black Venus has since become a potent icon of the material and symbolic violence of slavery and empire at the intersection of race and gender. Black feminist scholars and artists in particular use the Black Venus to expose the ongoing legacies of this violence and to repair it through projects of archival recovery. This dissertation argues that, in reducing her to a sexual stereotype, engagements with the Black Venus have overlooked more flexible and equally influential versions of the figure, both in her own moment as well as in her contemporary afterlives.Regardless of the historical period grounding their inquiry, interpretations of the Black Venus largely situate her within anachronistically rigid conceptions of racialized womanhood. However, in the eighteenth century, and even during Baartman's lifetime, racial categories were still fairly fluid, and representations of the Black Venus throughout the Atlantic world were fraught with contradiction. She personified freakishness and exotic beauty, African atavism and savvy entrepreneurship, abject victimization and seductive power, and, perhaps most surprisingly, Black and white women. Focusing particularly on the racially ambiguous Black Venuses of the eighteenth century-Imoinda, Yarico, and the Sable Venus-I radically redefine the figure against her stereotypical function as a hypersexual foil to virtuous, white womanhood, and read her instead as an embodied contact zone between domestic intimacy and imperial commerce. I contend that, rather than reaffirming racial categories already in place, the Black Venuses of this period index the porousness between Black and white womanhood as an expression of the unprecedented scale on which commercial capitalism-with slavery at its center-was transforming the social fabric of English domestic life. Redrawing the contours of the Black Venus paradigm opens new ways of understanding her contemporary afterlives because it foregrounds how profoundly Atlantic societies past and present have filtered their experiences of capitalist modernity through the circulating cipher of Black womanhood. Tracing her appearances across a vast range of genres-including staged drama, ethnography, the periodical essay, poetry, visual culture, and parliamentary proceedings-I contend that the Black Venus's persistence across three centuries has never been the result of her simple or static character. Instead, it reflects her capacious adaptability to diverse and even opposing ideological positions in both the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries: she has been marshalled to critique and excuse slavery, to celebrate commerce and warn of its perils, and, most recently, to recover the voices and humanity of Black women reduced to types in colonial archives, and to assert the impossibility of such recoveries. Upending established critical accounts of the Black Venus as a simple construct easily dismantled by a more enlightened present, I consider how different versions of the Black Venus layer onto one another to form a living record of the way histories of race, gender, commerce, and intimacy accumulate into the present, as well as the way that contemporary legacies of slavery and empire shape our engagements with the past.
Black Venus
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Author : Angela Carter
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-09-30
Black Venus written by Angela Carter and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-30 with Fiction categories.
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds...Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of a actor, demonstrating in every thought and deed how right his friends were when they said 'No man is safe who drinks before breakfast.' And some of these people are totally imaginary. Such as the seventeenth century whore, transported to Virginia for thieving, who turns into a good woman in spite of herself among the Indians, who have nothing worth stealing. And a girl, suckled by wolves, strange and indifferent as nature, who will not tolerate returning to humanity. Angela Carter wonderfully mingles history, fiction, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low comedy in a glorious collection of stories as full of contradictions and surprises as life itself.
Black Venus 2010
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Author : Deborah Willis
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-08
Black Venus 2010 written by Deborah Willis and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-08 with Art categories.
Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus."
The Black Venus
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Author : Rhys Davies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
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The Black Venus
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Author : Percy W. Chattey
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-10-23
The Black Venus written by Percy W. Chattey and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-23 with Fiction categories.
The Black Venus won best fiction at the Pinnacle Awards in 2013. The story starts in the Balkans on a cold and rainy morning. Anna sets off for the market to buy the daily food for her and her husband Goren, little knowing that the events of the day would lead to her family seeking revenge many years later in the leafy lanes of Southern England. The Black Venus is really two stories in one and starts with terrorists detonating a car bomb in a town's market place, at the time unbeknown to them they were seen carrying out their grisly work by a girl in her teens who they need to find. Anna's relatives after years of searching find the men responsible for the hurt inflicted on their family and plan a terrible revenge. Meanwhile Chief Inspector Dergon is a frustrated man in his hunt for the men who destroyed the town square, he has information that they are planning another atrocity, but where, will he have time to stop it? The reader will find out by the very surprising end.
Black Venus
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Author : James MacManus
language : en
Publisher: Prelude Books
Release Date : 2014-02-27
Black Venus written by James MacManus and has been published by Prelude Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-27 with Fiction categories.
In nineteenth century Paris, the young bohemian Charles Baudelaire roams the streets. Dressed impeccably - thanks to an inheritance that is quickly vanishing - and lost in the decadences of alcohol and opium, he is about to meet one woman destined to change his life forever: the beautiful Haitian cabaret singer, Jeanne Duval. Inspiring Baudelaire's most infamous poems - leading to the banning of his masterwork, Les Fleurs du Mal, and a scandalous public trial for obscenity - Duval becomes Baudelaire's muse, the catalyst for a legacy spanning centuries. Their volatile and passionate affair explodes through the Parisian literary scene but, as the ever-more fractious world catches up with them, the strength of their love will be tested to the end. Unfolding among the bars and salons during revolutionary times, Black Venus is an intoxicating story of love and betrayal in which drugs, absinthe and lust prove the making, and the destruction, of a great poet.