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Hottentot Venus

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First published
2003
Pages
389
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Hottentot Venus is the story recreating the tragic life of Sarah Baartman, An African born in the colony called Good Hope founded in South Africa in 1790. The book has presented us with a vivid life of the racism and sexism at the heart of European imperialism.

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Barbara Chase-Riboud

Barbara Chase-Riboud built a career across fiction, poetry, and sculpture, with historical novels that restore complex interior lives to people constrained by the surviving record. Hottentot Venus centers Sarah Baartman, the South African woman exhibited in nineteenth-century Europe under a degrading stage name.

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Book facts

First published
2003
Reading time
About 9 hours
Pages
389
Language
English
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