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

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    Description Black Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France.

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    Janell Hobson - - Hypatia 18 4: Toward an Aesthetic of the Black Female Body. Janell Hobson - - Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 18 4: Duke University Press, A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 16 3: Similarly, Chapter 3, a study of Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or , pits the white woman against the non-European woman.

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    In this instance, black femininity includes creole women, indeed all non-European women. The idea of perilous mixing is repeated in Chapter 7, a critique of Maupassant's short story Boitelle. Chapter 5 poses the problematic of identification for black females seeking validation in the white world.

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