Sara Baartman And The Hottentot Venus

Author : Clifton Crais,Pamela Scully
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691238357

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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus by Clifton Crais,Pamela Scully Pdf

Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known. As the Hottentot Venus, she was seen by Westerners as alluring and primitive, a reflection of their fears and suppressed desires. But who was Sara Baartman? Who was the woman who became the Hottentot Venus? Based on research and interviews that span three continents, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus tells the entwined histories of an elusive life and a famous icon. In doing so, the book raises questions about the possibilities and limits of biography for understanding those who live between and among different cultures. In reconstructing Baartman's life, the book traverses the South African frontier and its genocidal violence, cosmopolitan Cape Town, the ending of the slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, London and Parisian high society, and the rise of racial science. The authors discuss the ramifications of discovering that when Baartman went to London, she was older than originally assumed, and they explore the enduring impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas about women, race, and sexuality. The book concludes with the politics involved in returning Baartman's remains to her home country, and connects Baartman's story to her descendants in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus offers the authoritative account of one woman's life and reinstates her to the full complexity of her history.

Author : Rachel Holmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408881514

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The Hottentot Venus by Rachel Holmes Pdf

The acclaimed biography of Sarah Baartman, once a slave and later a showgirl 'A significant and timely book ... Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary Review 'Impeccable ... In telling her extraordinary story, Holmes's fascinating book illuminates the forces which dominated her age, and resound in our own' Sunday Telegraph In 1810 the slave turned showgirl Sarah Baartman, London's most famous curiosity, became its legal cause célèbre. Famed for her exquisite physique – in particular her shapely bottom – she was stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped and ridiculed. This talented, tragic young South African woman became a symbol of exploitation, colonialism – and defiance. In this scintillating and vividly written book Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Baartman's extraordinary life for the first time.

Author : Clifton C. Crais,Pamela Scully
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Exploitation
ISBN : 1868144887

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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus by Clifton C. Crais,Pamela Scully Pdf

Author : Rachel Holmes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307510730

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African Queen by Rachel Holmes Pdf

Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed as “the Hottentot Venus” for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her fame spread to Paris, Saartjie became a lightning rod for late Georgian and Napoleonic attitudes toward sex and race, exploitation and colonialism, prurience and science. In African Queen, Rachel Holmes recounts the luminous, heartbreaking story of one woman’s journey from slavery to stardom. Born into a herding tribe known as the Eastern Cape Khoisan, Saartjie was barely out of her teens when she was orphaned and widowed by colonial war and forced aboard a ship bound for England. A pair of clever, unscrupulous showmen dressed her up in a body stocking with a suggestive fringe and put her on the London stage as a “specimen” of African beauty and sexuality. The Hottentot Venus was an overnight sensation. But celebrity brought unexpected consequences. Abolitionists initiated a lawsuit to win Saartjie’s freedom, a case that electrified the English public. In Paris, a team of scientists subjected her to a humiliating public inspection as they probed the mystery of her sexual allure. Stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped, and ridiculed, Saartjie came to symbolize the erotic obsession at the heart of colonialism. But beneath the costumes and the glare of publicity, this young Khoisan woman was a person who had been torn from her own culture and sacrificed to the whims of fashionable Europe. Nearly two centuries after her death, Saartjie made headlines once again when Nelson Mandela launched a campaign to have her remains returned to the land of her birth. In this brilliant, vividly written book, Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Saartjie’s extraordinary story–a story of race, eros, oppression, and fame that resonates powerfully today.

Author : N. Gordon-Chipembere
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230339262

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Representation and Black Womanhood by N. Gordon-Chipembere Pdf

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 installations, and centers, comprising a virtual archive that seeks to find some meaning in her persona. Yet even those with the best intentions, fighting to give Baartman agency, a voice, a personhood, continue to service the general narratives of European documentation of her life without asking "What if we looked at Baartman through another lens?" This collection is the first of its kind to offer a space for international scholars, cultural activists, and visual artists to examine the legacy of Baartman's life anew, specifically finding an alternative Africanist rendering of a person whose life has left a profound impact on the ways in which Black women are displayed and represented the world over.

Author : Elaine Destiny-Bey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545348324

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The Sarah Baartman Story by Elaine Destiny-Bey Pdf

This story was written from my point of view based on research and my perception of Saartjie "Sarah" Baartman. No one really knows exactly how Sarah felt, or what she was thinking about during her time in Europe until she died in 1815. But I trust she is proud of me and others who continue to share her story. This book is meant to gain more knowledge of our ancestor and build our confidence, self-respect, and self -love. I pray whoever reads this book learns something from her story. Ashe

Author : Barbara Chase-Riboud
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307426284

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Hottentot Venus by Barbara Chase-Riboud Pdf

It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon’s physician and the most famous naturalist in Europe, the Baron George Cuvier, whose encounter with her will inspire a theory of race that will change European science forever. Evoking the grand tradition of such “monster” tales as Frankenstein and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Barbara Chase Riboud, prize-winning author of the classic Sally Hemings, again gives voice to an “invisible” of history. In this powerful saga, Sarah Baartman, for more than 200 years known only as the mysterious lady in the glass cage, comes vividly and unforgettably to life.

Author : Janell Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135870966

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Venus in the Dark by Janell Hobson Pdf

Western culture has long been fascinated by black women, but a history of enslavement and colonial conquest has variously labeled black women's bodies as "exotic" and "grotesque." In this remarkable cultural history of black female beauty, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus." In 1810, Saartjie Baartman was taken from South Africa to Europe, where she was put on display at circuses, salons, and museums and universities as the "Hottentot Venus." The subsequent legacy of representations of black women's sexuality-from Josephine Baker to Serena Williams to hip-hop and dancehall videos-continues to refer back to this persistent icon. This book analyzes the history of critical and artistic responses to this iconography by black women in contemporary photography, film, literature, music, and dance.

Author : Suzan-Lori Parks
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559367387

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Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks Pdf

Parks' latest and most controversial work.

Author : Rachel Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Exploitation
ISBN : 1868422763

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The Hottentot Venus by Rachel Holmes Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004407916

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Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices by Anonim Pdf

Tracing the figure of Black Venus in literature and visual arts from different periods and geographies, Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices discusses how aesthetic practices may restore the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms.

Author : Deborah Willis
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781439902066

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Black Venus 2010 by Deborah Willis Pdf

Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus."

Author : Robin Mitchell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820354330

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Vénus Noire by Robin Mitchell Pdf

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 postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France’s need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Author : Diana Ferrus
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781456891732

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I’Ve Come to Take You Home by Diana Ferrus Pdf

Diana Ferrus was born in Worcester in 1953 and completed her high school career in 1972. She completed a postgraduate degree in Womens and Gender studies at the University of the Western Cape where she works as an administrator in the Dept of Industrial Psychology. Diana is a writer, poet, performance poet and story-teller. Her work in both Afrikaans and English has been published in various collections and some serve as prescribed texts for high school learners. Her publishing house, Diana Ferrus Publishers has published various publications including her first Afrikaans collection of poetry, Ons Komvandaan. Diana co-edited and published a collection of stories about fathers and daughters, Slaan vir my n masker, Vader in 2006. The mission of her publishing company is to publish writers from previously disadvantaged communities. Her company in association with the University of the Western Cape has published life stories of three former activists and unionists namely, Liz Nana Abrahams, Zollie Malindi and Archie Sibeko. These publications contain rich material about South Africas past and some are prescribed texts at the University of the Western Cape. She is a founder member of the Afrikaanse Skrywersvereniging (ASV), Bush Poets (all women poets) and Women in Xchains (grassroots women writers). Diana has attended numerous literary festivals locally and abroad. In 2006 she performed her poetry at the Klein Karoo Kunstefees with the Mamela band. They received a Kanna-award for the best contemporary music. At this very festival Diana received a Kanna-award for her contribution to Afrikaans. However Diana Ferrus is internationally known and acclaimed for the poem that she wrote for the indigenous South African woman Sarah Bartmann who was taken away from her country under false pretences and paraded as a sexual freak in Europe. Dianas work has had and still has a bearing and influence on matters of race, gender, class and reconciliation. She is popular amongst South Africans of all race groups. She believes in her countrys future and works tirelessly for her peoples emancipation from racial, sexual and class exploitation as well as reconciliation.

Author : Elizabeth Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106017795946

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The Venus Hottentot by Elizabeth Alexander Pdf

These poems range from personal memory to cultural history to human personae: John Coltrane, Frida Kahlo, Nelson Mandela, and "The Venus Hottentot," a nineteenth-century African woman made into a carnival sideshow exhibit. -- p.[4] of cover.