{"product_id":"black-venus-9780822323402","title":"Black Venus","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents 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, this book presents an argument that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A cogently argued study of representations of black women in French literature. In locating the Black Venus and the ideologies surrounding and informing her representations at the center of literary and cultural narratives, this book makes significant interventions in nineteenth-century French studies and current race and gender studies.”—Thadious M. Davis, Vanderbilt University\u003cbr\u003e“Intellectually rigorous, extremely well written, and solidly arguing against the dated French (and European) conceptualizations of black female sexuality. What a refreshing and much needed addition!”—Marjorie Attignol Salvodon, Connecticut College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Theorizing Black Venus 1\u003cbr\u003e Writing Sex, Writing DIfference: Creating the Master Text on the Hottentot Venus 16\u003cbr\u003e Representing Sarah- Same Difference or No Difference at All? La Vénus hottentote, ou haine au Françaises 32\u003cbr\u003e \"The Other Woman\": Reading a Body of Difference in Balzac's La Fille aux Yeux d'or 42\u003cbr\u003e Black Blood, White Masks, and Négresse Sexuality in de Pon's Ourika, l'Africaine 52\u003cbr\u003e Black Is the Difference: Identity, Colonialism, and Fetishism in La Belle Dorothée 62\u003cbr\u003e Desirous and Dangerous Imaginations:: The Black Female Body and the Courtesan in Zola's Thérèse Raquin 71\u003cbr\u003e Can a White Man Love a Black Woman? Perversions of Love beyond the Plae in Maupassant's \"Boitelle\" 86\u003cbr\u003e Bamboulas, Bacchanals, and Dark Veils over Whtie Memories in Loti's Le Roman d'un spahi 91\u003cbr\u003e Cinematic Venus in the Africanist Orient 105\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 119\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: The Hottentot Venus, or Hatred of Frenchwomen 127\u003cbr\u003e Notes 165\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 177\u003cbr\u003e Index 185","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406023270743,"sku":"9780822323402","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822323402.jpg?v=1730494277","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-venus-9780822323402","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}