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

by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Book Overview

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"