Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France

by Robin Mitchell

Book Overview

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In V nus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country's postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820354317
• ISBN13: 9780820354316
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"