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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
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.
192 pages, 26 black & white images
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9780820354323 |
| Publishers | University of Georgia Press |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 158 × 20 mm · 462 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Newman, Richard S. |
| Series Editor | Rael, Patrick |
| Series Editor | Sinha, Manisha |