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020			_a9781868 14488 _qhbk
040			_aRDA _c3228
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082			_a305.896104092 CRAI
100			_aCrais, Clifton _9146177
245			_aSara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus :a ghost story and a biography _bSara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus _cCrais Clifton, Scully Pamela, Flis Leslie
260			_aJohannesburg : _bWits University Press, _c2009.
300			_a xiv, 232 pages _bcolour illustrations: map _c 25 cm
504			_aSummary"Based on research and interviews that span three continents, this book tells the entwined histories of an illusive life and a famous icon. In doing so, the book raises questions about the possibilities and limits of biography for understanding those who live between and among different cultures. In reconstructing Sara Baartman's life, the book traverses the South African frontier and its genocidal violence, cosmopolitan Cape Town, the ending of the slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, London and Parisian high society, and the rise of racial science. The authors discuss the ramifications of discovering that when Baartman went to London, she was older than originally assumed, and they explore the enduring impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas about women, race, and sexuality. The book concludes with the politics involved in returning Baartman's remains to her home country, and connects Baartman's story to her descendants in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa"--Jacket. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index
521			_aAdult
942			_2ddc _cBOOK _w12663 _xPriscilla Nozizwe Mogale _y12663 _zPriscilla Nozizwe Mogale
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