Animality and Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity

ISBN-13: 9781032135427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 188 str.

Elodie Silberstein

Opis

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North’s destructive relationship with the natural world.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Staging Sara Baartman: Between Animality and Civility 3. Josephine Baker and Chiquita: The Feline and The Feminine 4. Josephine Baker: Taming Wildness on Screen 5. Grace Jones: The Return of the "Feral" Woman 6. The New Territories of Animalistic Glamour: "An Allosaurus to Adopt" 7. The Future of Animalistic Glamour