Black Venus : sexualized savages, primal fears, and primitive narratives in French / by Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean

Table of Contents: “…La Vénus hottentote, ou haine aux Françaises -- 3 The Other Woman: Reading a Body of Difference in Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or -- 4 Black Blood, White Masks, and Négresse Sexuality in de Pons's Ourika, l'Africaine -- 5 Black Is the Difference: Identity, Colonialism, and Fetishism in La Belle Dorothée -- 6 Desirous and Dangerous Imaginations: The Black Female Body and the Courtesan in Zola's Thérèse Raquin -- 7 Can a White Man Love a Black Woman? …”
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