VV(18) - Bring back the Hottentot Venus

[Dave Monroe]

On the so-called "Hottentot Venus," see ...

Gilman, Sander.  "Black Bodies, White Bodies:
   Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late
   Nineteenth Century Art, Medicine, and Literature."
   "Race," Writing, and Difference.  Ed. Henry Louis
   Gates, Jr.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.

__________.  Difference and Pathology:
   Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness.
   Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1986.

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean.  Black Venus:
   Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive
   Narratives in French.  Durham, NC: Duke UP,
   1999.

None of which I managed to deploy either in discussing
"Mondaugen's Story" or "V. in love," although they've
been circling.  Bonus bibliography ...

http://www.carlagirl.net/words/venbib.html

Very interesting indeed, thanks ...

--- David Morris <fqmorris at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
http://www.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/950615/wm950615-12.html
> 
> Bring back the Hottentot Venus
> June 15, 1995
> 
> A Quena woman who was shown in Europe as a circus
> freak last century is to 
> be the subject of a documentary reviving the memory
> of South Africa's 
> aboriginal people, writes Eddie Koch ...

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