Venus Noire
Robin Mitchell
University of Georgia Press, 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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780820354316
- ISBN-10
- 0820354317
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Year
- 2020
- Publication date
- 2020-01-01
- Pages
- 208
- Dimensions
- 153x228x18
- Weight
- 318