Black Venus : sexualized savages, primal fears, and primitive narratives in French / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

French fiction.

French fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Women, Black, in literature.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.

Popular culture--France--History--19th century.

Popular culture.

Popular culture--France--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the treatment and image of the black female or "Black Venus" as seen in early 19th French literature.

Contents:

Introduction: Theorizing Black Venus

1 Writing Sex, Writing Difference: Creating the Master Text on the Hottentot Venus

2 Representing Sarah-Same Difference or No Difference at All? La Venus hottentote, ou haine aux Francaises

3 The Other Woman: Reading a Body of Difference in Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or

4 Black Blood, White Masks, and Negresse Sexuality in de Pons's Ourika, l'Africaine

5 Black Is the Difference: Identity, Colonialism, and Fetishism in La Belle Dorothee

6 Desirous and Dangerous Imaginations: The Black Female Body and the Courtesan in Zola's Therese Raquin

7 Can a White Man Love a Black Woman? Perversions of Love beyond the Pale in Maupassant's Boitelle

8 Bamboulas, Bacchanals, and Dark Veils over White Memories in Loti's Le Roman d'un spahi

9 Cinematic Venus in the Africanist Orient

Epilogue

Appendix: The Hottentot Venus, or Hatred of Frenchwomen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-183) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612919893

9781282919891

128291989X

9780822382799

0822382792

OCLC:

841913292