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Hottentot Venus : a novel / Barbara Chase-Riboud.
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View onlineVan Pelt Library PS3553.H336 H68 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chase-Riboud, Barbara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baartman, Sarah--Fiction.
- Baartman, Sarah.
- Women, Khoikhoi--South Africa--Fiction.
- Women, Khoikhoi.
- South Africans--Europe--Fiction.
- South Africans.
- Exploitation.
- South Africa--Fiction.
- South Africa.
- Europe.
- Exploitation--Fiction.
- Women, Black--Fiction.
- Women, Black.
- Racism--Fiction.
- Racism.
- Europe--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, 2003.
- Summary:
- "Born in the colony of Good Hope, South Africa, in 1789, Sarah Baartman was taken to London at the age of twenty by an English surgeon, who promised her fame and fortune. Dubbed the ₃Hottentot Venus, ₄ she was paraded naked in Piccadilly in a freak-show exhibition and subjected to the unabashed stares and crude comments of the British public, which resulted in a sensational trial for her custody by British abolitionists."--Cover.
- Notes:
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Fiction, Winner, 2004
- Other Format:
- Online version: Chase-Riboud, Barbara. Hottentot Venus.
- ISBN:
- 0385508565
- 9780385508568
- OCLC:
- 52086559
- Publisher Number:
- 99807069878
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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