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