L'Africaine = The African maiden : grand opera in French in five acts / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Postcolonial eyes : intercontinental travel in Francophone African literature / by Ní Loingsigh, Aedín

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : history, genre and new ways of reading travel -- Mirages de Paris : staged encounters of the exotic kind -- Kocoumbo, l'étudiant noir : foreign studies -- Un Nègre à Paris : tourist tales -- Atlantic travels : beyond the slave ship? -- L'Africain du Grœnland : 'primitive' on 'primitives' -- Le petit prince de Belleville, maman a un amant : immigrants and tourists.…”
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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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