Representation and Black womanhood : the legacy of Sarah Baartman / edited by Natasha Gordon-Chipembere.
"Sarah Baartman's iconic status as the "Hottentot Venus"--As "victimized" African woman, "Mother" of the new South Africa, and ancestral spirit to countless women of the African Diaspora--has led to an outpouring of essays, biographies, films, interviews, art...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Claiming Sarah Baartman: a Legacy to Grasp / Natasha Gordon-Chipembere
- Part One. The Archive: Disrupting the Colonial Narrative
- 'Body' of Evidence: Saartjie Baartmann and the Archive / Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
- 'My Tongue Softens on That Other Name': Poetry and People in Sarah Baartmann's Natural World / Yvette Abrahams, Khib Omsis
- 'Rude' Performances: Theorizing Agency / Hershini Bhana Young
- Baartman and the Private: How Can We Look at a Figure That has Been Looked at Too Much? / Gabeba Baderoon
- Placing and (Re) placing the 'Venus Hottentot': An Archeology of Pornography, Race and Power / Sheila Smith McKoy
- Part Two. Troubling the 'Truth': Corporeal Representations
- Writing Baartman's Agency: History, Biography and the Imbroglios of Truth / Desiree Lewis
- 'I Wanna Love Something Wild': A Reading of Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus / Ilaria Oddenino
- "Just ask the scientists": Troubling the 'Hottentot' and Scientific Racism in Bessie Head's Maru and Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy / Z'etoile Imma
- Staging the body of the (M)other: the 'Hottentot Venus' and the 'Wild Dancing Bushman' / Karlien van der Schyff
- Under Cuvier's Microscope: the Dissection of Michelle Obama in the Twenty-First Century / Natasha Gordon-Chipembere.