Vénus Noire Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France |
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| Author:
| Mitchell, Robin |
| Series title: | Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-5431-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2020 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $36.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.