10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOTTENTOT»
Discover the use of
Hottentot in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Hottentot and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sara Baartman and the
Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a ...
Details the life of Sara Baartman, taken from Africa in 1810 to be exhibited in London, and whose remains were ceremoniously returned from France to democratic South Africa, and attempts to separate the woman from the symbol of racism and ...
Clifton C. Crais, Pamela Scully, 2009
2
African Queen: The Real Life of the
Hottentot Venus
In African Queen, Rachel Holmes recounts the luminous, heartbreaking story of one woman’s journey from slavery to stardom.
3
Hottentot Venus: A Novel
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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Barbara Chase-Riboud, 2007
4
Black Venus 2010: They Called Her "
Hottentot"
Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus"
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Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, ...
3. The. Hottentot. and. the. Prostitute: Toward. an. Iconography. of. Female.
Sexuality. Looking at Olympia and Nana One of the classic works of nineteenth-
century art records the ideas of both the sexualized woman and the black woman
.
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Language in Africa: An Introductory Survey
The current term was coined by L. Schultze apparently from the Hottentot's word
for person (kxoe) and their name for the Bushmen (sa-n). The term was
popularized by the anthropologist I. Schapera and Dorothea Bleek, one of the
leading ...
7
HOTTENTOT VENUS, THE: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SAARTJIE ...
In 1810 Saartjie Baartman was London's most famous curiosity.
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Reynard the Fox in South Africa Or
Hottentot Fables and ...
It is not unlikely that the beginning of this Hottentot Fable of The Girafl'e and the
Tortoise is missing. It may have been similar to the beginning of the
corresponding one in Damara. As far as it goes the Hottentot Fable is however
evidently more ...
...Shanley has an unusual talent for situations...and a sure gift for a kind of inner dialogue in which people talk their hearts as well as their minds... --NY Post.
Elizabeth Alexander's highly praised first collection is available once again I didn't want to write a poem that said "blackness is," because we know better than anyone that we are not one or ten or ten thousand things Not one poem -from ...
Elizabeth Alexander, 2004
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOTTENTOT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Hottentot is used in the context of the following news items.
It's Still Harder for Black People to Win Respect. Even Serena …
... "reactions to Williams's rear end are reminiscent of responses to Saartjie Baartman, a South African woman known as the 'Hottentot Venus', ... «NDTVSports.com, Jul 15»
Exhibit B: An unnerving exploration of racism and brutality | GIAF …
... is entitled The Missing Link and accompanied with an inscription about Sarah Baartman, the 19th-century “Hottentot Venus” who was put on ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
Stop Focusing on Serena Williams's Size
The hypercritical focus on Serena's body harkens back to the racist trope of the Hottentot Venus. In the 1800s, Hottentot Venus, whose real ... «Cosmopolitan.com, Jul 15»
The trials of Brett Bailey: 'I was seen as a racist South African. That …
One infamous example is the case of Saartjie, or Sarah, Baartman, renamed the Hottentot Venus for the size of her posterior, who was ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
Lets talks Video Vixens!
Industry players need to make sure there is no repeat of the Hottentot Venus era. As a matter of fact, Video Vixens needed to have had an ... «New Era, Jul 15»
'People have a very profound, deep, response to it'
Several performers in Exhibit B depict historical personalities such as Saartjie Baartman, the so-called 'Hottentot Venus', and Angolan deportee ... «Galway Advertiser, Jul 15»
Brooklyn Artist Poses Naked at Former Slavery Sites in New York
Another inspiration was the story of Saartjie "Sarah" Baartman, also known as Venus Hottentot, who was an African woman who was carted ... «DNAinfo, Jul 15»
“We Need a New Skin Color”: The Racial Imagination of Dada
... ugliness and chance — these unquestionable advantages of admirable eccentricity, of a noisy foolish fox-trot and a drunken hottentot,” while ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
Goddess of love and beauty?
She was even compared to Sarah “Saartjie” Baartman, a woman known as “the Venus Hottentot” in the early 1800s. Was Baartman and now ... «Alton Telegraph, Jul 15»
Royal Opera House's rape scene calls for a public revolt says …
Political hottentot that I am, I sit there steaming and groaning and griping. At the Hampstead I gave an audible 'oooof' at that latest atrocity, but ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
