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Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France - Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Robin Mitchell
Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France - Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900
Robin Mitchell
Shows how literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape France’s post-revolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. The stories of these women reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.
208 pages, 25 black & white images
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9780820354316 |
| Publishers | University of Georgia Press |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 153 × 18 mm · 318 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Newman, Richard S. |
| Series Editor | Rael, Patrick |
| Series Editor | Sinha, Manisha |