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

by Robin Mitchell

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 Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country’s postrevolutionar

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Publication date

Jan 01, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

208

ISBN

9780820354316