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Black Venus
Language: en
Pages: 98
Authors: Angela Carter
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-30 - Publisher: Random House

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Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudel
Black Venus
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-19 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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DIVExplores the treatment and image of the black female or "Black Venus" as seen in early 19th French literature./div
Black Venus 2010
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Deborah Willis
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-08 - Publisher: Temple University Press

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Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus."
Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices
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Pages: 229
Authors:
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-15 - Publisher: BRILL

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Tracing the figure of Black Venus in literature and visual arts from different periods and geographies, Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices
Vénus Noire
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Robin Mitchell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-15 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly