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Venus in the dark : blackness and beauty in popular culture / Janell Hobson.

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LIBRA Rare HQ1233 .H63 2005 Banks copy
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Language:
English
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Penn Provenance:
  • Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.
Contents:
  • Re-presenting the Black Female Body: An introduction
  • Venus and the Hottentot: The Emergence of an Icon
  • The Hottentot Venus Revisited: The Politics of Reclamation
  • The "Batty" Politic: Toward an Aesthetic of the Black Female Body
  • Mirror, Mirror: Framing the Black Female Body for Still and Motion Pictures
  • Epilogue.
Notes:
  • "Cover image: The Voyage of the Sable Venus from Angola to the West Indias, 1800. Engraved by William Grainger after a painting by Thomas Stothard R.A. ..."
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-169) and index.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
ISBN:
  • 0415974011
  • 041597402X
OCLC:
57494031

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