They Call Me Hottentot Venus
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They Call Me Hottentot Venus
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Author : Monica Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009-12
They Call Me Hottentot Venus written by Monica Clarke and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12 with categories.
This book addresses human trafficking in easy, non academic language. It is a novel and is a good read especially for teenagers. Saartjie Baartman also known as Hottentot Venus, was an ordinary, curious, 18 year old, who, in 1810, travelled to a foreign country with all the excitement and expectation of any young girl, eager to see the big world, eager to make some money. Her big misfortune was a meeting with a British surgeon, Alexander Dunlop, who befriended her, and used his position as a man of medicine to cover up his real motive, which was to display her as a piece of erotic meat. And to make money out of her. Saartjie tells what went through her mind as she watched the crowds in exhibition halls in Europe gaping at her whilst feeding their erotic fantasies. She talks of her Khoikhoi culture and tells of her innocent hopes and dreams to earn honest money, and of her shame and degradation. The book shows that society let Saartjie down, and ends with a well-referenced bibliography for further reading.
They Call Me Hottentot Venus
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Author : Monica Clarke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-12-16
They Call Me Hottentot Venus written by Monica Clarke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-16 with categories.
This book addresses sexual slavery in easy, non academic language. It is a novel and is a good read especially for teenagers. Saartjie Baartman also known as Hottentot Venus, was an ordinary, curious, 18 year old, who, in 1810, travelled to a foreign country with all the excitement and expectation of any young girl, eager to see the big world, eager to make some money. Her big misfortune was a meeting with a British surgeon, Alexander Dunlop, who befriended her, and used his position as a man of medicine to cover up his real motive, which was to display her as a piece of erotic meat. And to make money out of her. Saartjie tells what went through her mind as she watched the crowds in exhibition halls in Europe gaping at her whilst feeding their erotic fantasies. She talks of her Khoikhoi culture and tells of her innocent hopes and dreams to earn honest money, and of her shame and degradation. The book shows that society let Saartjie down, and ends with a well-referenced bibliography for further reading.
Venus
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Author : Suzan-Lori Parks
language : en
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Release Date : 2012-12-15
Venus written by Suzan-Lori Parks and has been published by Theatre Communications Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-15 with Drama categories.
Parks' latest and most controversial work.
Hottentot Venus
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Author : Barbara Chase-Riboud
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Hottentot Venus written by Barbara Chase-Riboud and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.
It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon’s physician and the most famous naturalist in Europe, the Baron George Cuvier, whose encounter with her will inspire a theory of race that will change European science forever. Evoking the grand tradition of such “monster” tales as Frankenstein and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Barbara Chase Riboud, prize-winning author of the classic Sally Hemings, again gives voice to an “invisible” of history. In this powerful saga, Sarah Baartman, for more than 200 years known only as the mysterious lady in the glass cage, comes vividly and unforgettably to life.
African Queen
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Author : Rachel Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-03-25
African Queen written by Rachel Holmes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed as “the Hottentot Venus” for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her fame spread to Paris, Saartjie became a lightning rod for late Georgian and Napoleonic attitudes toward sex and race, exploitation and colonialism, prurience and science. In African Queen, Rachel Holmes recounts the luminous, heartbreaking story of one woman’s journey from slavery to stardom. Born into a herding tribe known as the Eastern Cape Khoisan, Saartjie was barely out of her teens when she was orphaned and widowed by colonial war and forced aboard a ship bound for England. A pair of clever, unscrupulous showmen dressed her up in a body stocking with a suggestive fringe and put her on the London stage as a “specimen” of African beauty and sexuality. The Hottentot Venus was an overnight sensation. But celebrity brought unexpected consequences. Abolitionists initiated a lawsuit to win Saartjie’s freedom, a case that electrified the English public. In Paris, a team of scientists subjected her to a humiliating public inspection as they probed the mystery of her sexual allure. Stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped, and ridiculed, Saartjie came to symbolize the erotic obsession at the heart of colonialism. But beneath the costumes and the glare of publicity, this young Khoisan woman was a person who had been torn from her own culture and sacrificed to the whims of fashionable Europe. Nearly two centuries after her death, Saartjie made headlines once again when Nelson Mandela launched a campaign to have her remains returned to the land of her birth. In this brilliant, vividly written book, Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Saartjie’s extraordinary story–a story of race, eros, oppression, and fame that resonates powerfully today.
Sara Baartman And The Hottentot Venus
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Author : Clifton Crais
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Sara Baartman And The Hottentot Venus written by Clifton Crais and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Social Science categories.
Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known. As the Hottentot Venus, she was seen by Westerners as alluring and primitive, a reflection of their fears and suppressed desires. But who was Sara Baartman? Who was the woman who became the Hottentot Venus? Based on research and interviews that span three continents, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus tells the entwined histories of an elusive life and a famous icon. In doing so, the book raises questions about the possibilities and limits of biography for understanding those who live between and among different cultures. In reconstructing Baartman's life, the book traverses the South African frontier and its genocidal violence, cosmopolitan Cape Town, the ending of the slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, London and Parisian high society, and the rise of racial science. The authors discuss the ramifications of discovering that when Baartman went to London, she was older than originally assumed, and they explore the enduring impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas about women, race, and sexuality. The book concludes with the politics involved in returning Baartman's remains to her home country, and connects Baartman's story to her descendants in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus offers the authoritative account of one woman's life and reinstates her to the full complexity of her history.
The Hottentot Venus
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Author : Rachel Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-19
The Hottentot Venus written by Rachel Holmes and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The acclaimed biography of Sarah Baartman, once a slave and later a showgirl 'A significant and timely book ... Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary Review 'Impeccable ... In telling her extraordinary story, Holmes's fascinating book illuminates the forces which dominated her age, and resound in our own' Sunday Telegraph In 1810 the slave turned showgirl Sarah Baartman, London's most famous curiosity, became its legal cause célèbre. Famed for her exquisite physique – in particular her shapely bottom – she was stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped and ridiculed. This talented, tragic young South African woman became a symbol of exploitation, colonialism – and defiance. In this scintillating and vividly written book Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Baartman's extraordinary life for the first time.
Early African Entertainments Abroad
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Author : Bernth Lindfors
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2014-11-25
Early African Entertainments Abroad written by Bernth Lindfors and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-25 with History categories.
By exploring the representations of Africans in circuses, plays, and exhibits in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and America, Bernth Lindfors reveals how these performances served to reinforce American and European prejudices.
Ils M Appellent Hottentot Venus
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Author : Monica Clarke
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-12-16
Ils M Appellent Hottentot Venus written by Monica Clarke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-16 with categories.
C'est l'histoire de Saartjie Baartman, jeune aborigène d'Afrique du Sud qui à 18 ans fut exposée à Londres et à Paris comme un "morceau de viande érotique" en 1810. Un chirurgien Britannique la vit et décida de l'arracher à son pays d'origine sans autorisation et l'exhiba pour de l'argent. Pourquoi? parce qu'elle avait un gros postérieur qui à Cape Town d'alors et Cape Town d'aujourd'hui n'intéresse personne. Mais les Européens sont venus pour la toucher, l'examiner et la scruter pendant qu'elle restait quelque fois 12 heures debout dans une cage à Piccadilly Circus et puis à Paris. Naïvement elle pensait pouvoir être une nounou et était impatiente de voir le monde, mais ses rêves furent anéantis. Elle raconte son histoire très simplement. Ce livre vaut la peine d'être lu par les jeunes qui vivent dans un monde où les esclavages sexuels sont monnaie courante.Amazon : "Ils m'appellent Hottentot Venus" par Monica Clarke ISBN 978-1-4452-5172-1
Hottentot Venus The Story Of Saartjie Baartman
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Author : Monica Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Hottentot Venus The Story Of Saartjie Baartman written by Monica Clarke and has been published by Austin Macauley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Step into the captivating life of Saartjie Baartman, an ordinary and curious 18-year-old whose dreams led her from the familiar shores of Cape Town to the distant lands of England and Paris. Little did she know that her voyage would take a tragic turn, transforming her life into a harrowing tale of exploitation and dehumanization. In this powerful biography, Saartjie’s true story is finally given a voice, allowing her to recount her experiences firsthand. From the initial promise of work as a nursery maid to the shocking reality of being displayed as an object of desire in London and Paris, her journey is one of heartbreak, resilience, and survival. As you delve into Saartjie’s own words, you will bear witness to the fear and anguish of a displaced soul in foreign lands. Her poignant narrative sheds light on the struggles faced by countless individuals torn from their homelands, forced to navigate the trials of being foreign nationals in strange and unwelcoming territories. Supported by meticulous research and accurate references, this book also draws a striking parallel to the present day, where the erosion of human rights continues to fuel the alarming rise of human trafficking and bonded labor. Saartjie’s story serves as a timeless reminder of the enduring fight for justice and equality, resonating even more powerfully in a world that grapples with these same issues two centuries later. Hottentot Venus is a tribute to a remarkable woman who suffered the indignities of exploitation, but whose legacy fuels the ongoing struggle for dignity and human rights. Her voice, once silenced, now echoes through these pages, urging us to confront our past, understand our present, and forge a more compassionate future.