Vénus noire : black women and colonial fantasies in nineteenth-century France /

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 o...

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Main Author: Mitchell, Robin, 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2020]
Series:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
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