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

by T.DeneanSharpley-Whiting (Author)

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  1999

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  Presents 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.