Title: Representation and black womanhood : the legacy of Sarah Baartman
Abstract: Claiming Sarah Baartman: a Legacy to Grasp - Natasha Gordon-Chipembere * PART I: The Archive: Disrupting the Colonial Narrative * 'Body' of Evidence: Saartjie Baartmann and the Archive - Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu * 'My Tongue Softens on the other name': Poetry and People in Sarah Baartmann's Natural World - Yvette Abrahams/ Khib Omsis * Coercive Performances: Sarah Baartman and Slaves for Auction - Hershini Bhana Young * Baartman and the Private - Gabeba Baderoon * Placing and (Re) placing the 'Venus Hottentot': An Archeology of Pornography, Race and Power * Sheila Smith Mckoy * PART II: Troubling the 'Truth': Corporeal Representations * Sara Baartman, Biography and the Modalities of Truth - Desiree Lewis * I Wanna Love Something Wild-A Reading of Suzan-Lori Parks's - Ilaria Oddenino * Just ask the scientists: Troubling the 'Hottentot' and Scientific Racism in Bessie Head's Maru and Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy - Z'etoile Imma * Staging the body of the (M) other: the Hottentot Venus and the Wild Dancing Bushman - Karlien van der Schyff * Under Cuvier's Microscope: the Dissection of Michelle Obama in the twenty-first Century - Natasha Gordon-Chipembere
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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