Black Venus 2010
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Black Venus 2010

They Called Her "Hottentot"

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Black Venus 2010

They Called Her "Hottentot"

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As a young South African woman of about twenty, Saartjie Baartman, the so-called "Hottentot Venus, " was brought to London and placed on exhibit in 1810. Clad in the Victorian equivalent of a body stocking, and paraded through the streets and on stage in a cage she became a human spectacle in London and Paris. Baartman's distinctive physique became the object of ridicule, curiosity, scientific inquiry, and desire until and after her premature death. The figure of Sarah Baartman was reduced to her sexual parts.

Black Venus 2010 traces Baartman's memory in our collective histories, as well as her symbolic history in the construction and identity of black women as artists, performers, and icons. The wide-ranging essays, poems, and images in Black Venus 2010 represent some of the most compelling responses to Baartman. Each one grapples with the enduring legacy of this young African woman who forever remains a touchstone for black women.

Contributors include: Elizabeth Alexander, Holly Bass, Petrushka A Bazin, William Jelani Cobb, Lisa Gail Collins,   RenĂ©e Cox, J. Yolande Daniels, Carole Boyce Davies, Leon de Wailly, Manthia Diawara, Diana Ferrus, Cheryl Finley, Nikky Finney, Kianga K. Ford, Terri Francis, Sander Gilman, RenĂ©e Green, Joy Gregory, Lyle Ashton Harris, Michael D. Harris, Linda Susan Jackson, Kellie Jones, Roshini Kempadoo, Simone Leigh, Zine Magubane, E. Ethelbert Miller, Robin Mitchell, Charmaine Nelson, Tracey Rose, Radcliffe Roye, Bernadette Searle, Lorna Simpson, Debra S. Singer, Penny Siopis, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Michele Wallace, Carla Williams, Carrie Mae Weems, J. T. Zealy, and the editor.

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Publisher
Temple University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781439902066
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Prologue: The Venus Hottentot (1825) by Elizabeth Alexander
  4. Introduction: The Notion of Venus by Deborah Willis
  5. Part I: Sarah Baartman in Context
  6. Part II: Sarah Baartman's Legacy in Art and Art History
  7. Part III: Sarah Baartman and Black Women as Public Spectacle
  8. Part IV: Iconic Women in the Twentieth Century
  9. Epilogue: I've Come to Take You Home (Tribute to Sarah Bartmann Written in Holland, June 1998) by Diana Ferrus
  10. Bibliography
  11. Contributors
  12. Index