| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cross/Cultures ; 210 |
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Cross/cultures ; 210.
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| Contents |
Refiguring Black Venus: preliminary considerations / Jorunn S. Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt and Zeljka Svrjuga -- Venus from A to Z in Beryl Gilroy's Inkle and Yarico / Zeljka Svrljuga -- H.C. Andersen's Black Venus fairy tale: "The Marsh King's Daughter" and the aftermath of Danish colonialism / Kjersti Aarstein -- The finger that mocks the world: Kara Walker's Sugar Baby and images of African American womanhood / Carmen Birkle -- The Italian gaze on Black Venus / Camilla Erichsen Skalle -- The voice of Venus: Angela Carter's "Black Venus" and the democratization of literature / Kari Jegerstedt -- Epic theatre and the culture of spectacle: aesthetic figuration of body and race in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus / Ljubica Matek -- The wild woman, the little mistress, the Hottentot Venus, and the pedestal monster: living curiosities and their counter-spaces in two texts by Charles Baudelaire / Margery Vibe Skagen -- Colonial bodies in display cases and spectating bodies: a contemporary art critique / Ulla Angkjœ Jørgensen -- Gazes, faces, hands: othering objectification and spectatorial surrender in Abdellatif Kechiche's Vénus noire and Carl Th. Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc / Jorunn S. Gjerden |
| Summary |
'Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices' critically examines a longstanding colonial fascination with the black female body as an object of sexual desire, envy, and anxiety. Since the 2002 repatriation of the remains of Sara Baartman to post-apartheid South Africa, the interest in the figure of Black Venus has skyrocketed, making her a key symbol for the restoration of the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms. Edited by Jorunn Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, and Zeljka Svrljuga, this volume considers Black Venus as a product of art established and potentially refigured through aesthetic practices, following her travels through different periods, geographies and art forms from Baudelaire to Kara Walker, and from the Caribbean to Scandinavia. Contributors: Kjersti Aarstein, Carmen Birkle, Jorunn Svensen Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, Ulla Angkjaer Jorgensen, Ljubica Matek, Margery Vibe Skagen, Camilla Erichsen Skalle, Zeljka Svrljuga |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Baartman, Sarah.
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| SUBJECT |
Baartman, Sarah fast |
| Subject |
Women, Black, in art.
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Body image in women.
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Arts, Modern.
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Arts, Modern
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Body image in women
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Women, Black, in art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gjerden, Jorunn Svensen, editor.
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Jegerstedt, Kari, editor
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Švrljuga, Željka, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004407916 |
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900440791X |
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