Representation and Black Womanhood The Legacy of Sarah Baartman

Name: Representation and Black Womanhood The Legacy of Sarah Baartman
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ISBN: 9780230117792

ISBN-10: 0230117791

ISBN-13: 9780230117792

Edition: 2011

Authors: Natasha Gordon-Chipembere

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List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 8/3/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 207
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prelude: ï¿½I've come to take you homeï¿½



Introduction: Claiming Sarah Baartman, a Legacy to Grasp




The Archive: Disrupting the Colonial Narrative



ï¿½Bodyï¿½ of Evidence: Saartjie Baartman and the Archive




ï¿½My Tongue Softens On That Other Nameï¿½: Poetry, People, and Plants in Sarah Bartmann's Natural World




ï¿½Rudeï¿½ Performances: Theorizing Agency




Baartman and the Private: How Can We Look at a Figure that Has Been Looked at Too Much?




Placing and Replacing ï¿½The Venus Hottentotï¿½: An Archeology of Pornography, Race, and Power




Troubling the ï¿½Truthï¿½: Corporeal Representations



Writing Baartman's Agency: History, Biography, and the Imbroglios of Truth




ï¿½I Wanna Love Something Wildï¿½: A Reading of Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus




ï¿½Just Ask the Scientistsï¿½: Troubling the ï¿½Hottentotï¿½ and Scientific Racism in Bessie Head's Maru and Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy




Staging the Body of the (M)other: The ï¿½Hottentot Venusï¿½ and the ï¿½Wild Dancing Bushmanï¿½




Under Cuvier's Microscope: The Dissection of Michelle Obama in the Twenty-First Century



Notes on Contributors


Bibliography


Index