Representation and Black Womanhood - The Legacy of Sarah Baartman (Hardcover)

Sarah Baartman's iconic status as the "Hottentot Venus"--as "victimized" African woman, "Mother" of the new South Africa, and ancestral spirit to countless women of the African Diaspora--has led to countless essays, biographies, films, interviews, art installations, and research centers, comprising a virtual archive that seeks to find some meaning in her persona. Yet even those with the best intentions, fighting to give her agency, a voice, a personhood, continue to reinforce the outmoded European narrative of her life without asking "What if we looked at Baartman through another lens?" This collection, the first of its kind, offers a space in which international scholars, cultural activists, and visual artists examine the legacy of Baartman's life anew. It disrupts iconic, pop-culture narratives to seek an alternative Africanist rendering of a person whose life has left a profound impact on the ways in which Black women are displayed and represented the world over.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	N. Gordon-Chipembere
Dimensions:	222 x 142 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	207
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-11779-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history
LSN:	0-230-11779-1
Barcode:	9780230117792

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