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Black Women And Colonial Fantasies In Nineteenth-Century France

by Robin Mitchell
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS, January of 2020 ‧
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Shows how literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape France’s post-revolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. The stories of these women reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Venus Noire

Black Women And Colonial Fantasies In Nineteenth-Century France

by Robin Mitchell

Property Description
ISBN: 9780820354316
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS
Release Date: January of 2020
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 208
Format: Book
Collection: Race In The Atlantic World, 1700–1900
Categories: Books in English > History > History of Europe
EAN: 9780820354316