Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French

Bridget Harris Tsemo, T. Denean Sharpley‐Whiting

African American Review · 2001 · 108 citations · 0 references

Concepts

Abstract

Theorizing Black VenusVe•nus [ME, fro L. Vener-, Venus] I: the Roman goddess of natural productivityand in later times of love and beauty-compare APHRODITE The African woman belongs to the dream world of primal psychological conceptions.-Hans Werner