Vénus noire : black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France / Robin Mitchell.

Author: Mitchell, Robin, 1962- author.

ImprintAthens : The University of Georgia Press, [2020]

Descriptionxix, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-176) and index.

Note:Even though there were relatively few people of colour in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women appeared regularly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country's postrevolutionary national identity.

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