Black Venus, 2010 : they called her "Hottentot" / edited by Deborah Willis ; with research assistance by Carla Williams.

Other author Willis, Deborah, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2010.
Descriptionviii, 238 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Baartman, Sarah.
Arts, Modern.

Contents Prologue : The Venus Hottentot (1825) / Elizabeth Alexander -- Introduction : The notion of Venus / Deborah Willis -- The Hottentot and the prostitute : toward an iconography of female sexuality / Sander Gilman -- Another means of understanding the gaze : Sarah Bartmann in the development of nineteenth-century French national identity / Robin Mitchell -- Which bodies matter? Feminism, post-structuralism, race, and the curious theoretical odyssey of the "Hottentot Venus" / Zine Magubane -- Exhibit A : Private life without a narrative / J. Yolande Daniels -- crucifix / Holly Bass -- Historic retrievals : confronting visual evidence and the imagining of truth / Lisa Gail Collins -- Reclaiming Venus : the presense of Sarah Bartmann in contemporary art / Debra S. Singer -- Playing with Venus : Black women artists and the Venus trope in contemporary visual art / Kianga K. Ford -- Talk of town / Manthia Diawara -- The "Hottentot Venus" in Canada : modernism, censorship, and the racial limits of female sexuality / Charmaine Nelson -- A.K.A. Saartjie : the "Hottentot Venus" in context (some recollections and a dialogue), 1998/2004 / Kellie Jones -- little sarah / Linda Susan Jackson -- The greatest show on earth : for Saartjie Baartman, Joice Heth, Anarcha of Alabama, Truuginini, and us all / Nikky Finney -- The imperial gaze : Venus Hottentot, human display, and world's fairs / Michele Wallace -- Cinderella tours Europe / Cheryl Finley -- Mirror sisters : Aunt Jemima as the antonym/extension of Saartjie Bartmann / Michael D. Harris -- My wife as Venus / E. Ethelbert Miller -- agape / Holly Bass -- Black/female/bodies carnivalized in spectacle and space / Carole Boyce Davies -- Sighting the "real" Josephine Baker : methods and issues of Black star studies / Terri Francis -- The hoodrat theory / William Jelani Cobb -- Epilogue : I've come to take you home (tribute to Sarah Bartmann written in Holland, June 1998) / Diana Ferrus.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.
LCCN 2009036736
ISBN9781439902042 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1439902046 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781439902059 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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