Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French
by
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 1999
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...