Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French

by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822323400

ISBN13:9780822323402

Release Date:May 1999

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Arts, Music & Photography Criticism & Theory Europe Fiction France Gay & Lesbian History History & Criticism Humor & Entertainment Literature & Fiction

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