Vénus noire: black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France
"Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depict...
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Athens, Georgia
The University of Georgia Press
[2020]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country's postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France's need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present."--Provided by publisher |
| Beschreibung: | xix, 183 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780820354316 9780820354323 |
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| spelling | Mitchell, Robin 1962- Verfasser (DE-588)1203818106 aut Vénus noire black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France Robin Mitchell Black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France Athens, Georgia The University of Georgia Press [2020] xix, 183 Seiten Illustrationen txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900 Preface: Plaster cast, an allegory -- Introduction: Black women in the French imaginary -- The tale of three women : the biographies -- Entering darkness : colonial anxieties and the cultural production of Sarah Baartmann -- Ourika mania : cultural consumption of (dis)remembered blackness -- Jeanne Duval : site of memory -- Conclusion: Vénus noire "Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country's postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France's need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present."--Provided by publisher Baartman, Sarah 1789-1815 (DE-588)122834879 gnd rswk-swf Duras, Claire de Durfort de 1778-1828 (DE-588)119543338 gnd rswk-swf Duval, Jeanne 1827- (DE-588)122488652 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1800-1899 gnd rswk-swf Ethnische Beziehungen (DE-588)4176973-9 gnd rswk-swf Schwarze Frau (DE-588)4286929-8 gnd rswk-swf Frankreich (DE-588)4018145-5 gnd rswk-swf Baartman, Sarah Duras, Claire de Durfort / duchesse de / 1777-1828 / Ourika Duval, Jeanne / In literature Duval, Jeanne Women, Black / France / Public opinion Women, Black, in literature Women, Black, in popular culture / France Stereotypes (Social psychology) / France / History African diaspora Racism / France / History Sexism / France / History France / Race relations / History Literature Race relations Racism Sexism Stereotypes (Social psychology) Women, Black, in popular culture France History Baartman, Sarah 1789-1815 (DE-588)122834879 p Duras, Claire de Durfort de 1778-1828 (DE-588)119543338 p Duval, Jeanne 1827- (DE-588)122488652 p Frankreich (DE-588)4018145-5 g Schwarze Frau (DE-588)4286929-8 s Ethnische Beziehungen (DE-588)4176973-9 s Geschichte 1800-1899 z DE-604 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, ebk 978-0-8203-5433-0 |
| spellingShingle | Mitchell, Robin 1962- Vénus noire black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France Preface: Plaster cast, an allegory -- Introduction: Black women in the French imaginary -- The tale of three women : the biographies -- Entering darkness : colonial anxieties and the cultural production of Sarah Baartmann -- Ourika mania : cultural consumption of (dis)remembered blackness -- Jeanne Duval : site of memory -- Conclusion: Vénus noire Baartman, Sarah 1789-1815 (DE-588)122834879 gnd Duras, Claire de Durfort de 1778-1828 (DE-588)119543338 gnd Duval, Jeanne 1827- (DE-588)122488652 gnd Ethnische Beziehungen (DE-588)4176973-9 gnd Schwarze Frau (DE-588)4286929-8 gnd |
| subject_GND | (DE-588)122834879 (DE-588)119543338 (DE-588)122488652 (DE-588)4176973-9 (DE-588)4286929-8 (DE-588)4018145-5 |
| title | Vénus noire black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France |
| title_alt | Black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France |
| title_auth | Vénus noire black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France |
| title_exact_search | Vénus noire black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France |
| title_exact_search_txtP | Vénus noire black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France |
| title_full | Vénus noire black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France Robin Mitchell |
| title_fullStr | Vénus noire black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France Robin Mitchell |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vénus noire black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France Robin Mitchell |
| title_short | Vénus noire |
| title_sort | venus noire black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth century france |
| title_sub | black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France |
| topic | Baartman, Sarah 1789-1815 (DE-588)122834879 gnd Duras, Claire de Durfort de 1778-1828 (DE-588)119543338 gnd Duval, Jeanne 1827- (DE-588)122488652 gnd Ethnische Beziehungen (DE-588)4176973-9 gnd Schwarze Frau (DE-588)4286929-8 gnd |
| topic_facet | Baartman, Sarah 1789-1815 Duras, Claire de Durfort de 1778-1828 Duval, Jeanne 1827- Ethnische Beziehungen Schwarze Frau Frankreich |
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