Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices

Tracing the figure of Black Venus in literature and visual arts from different periods and geographies, Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices discusses how aesthetic practices may restore the racialized female body in feminist, anti-racist and postcolonial terms.

Info autore

Jorunn S. Gjerden is an independent researcher of French literature who recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship thematizing Sara Baartman. Her publications include articles and a monograph on ethics and aesthetics, modernist literature, performativity, and postcoloniality.

Kari Jegerstedt is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Bergen. She has published several articles and edited volumes on gender and feminist theory, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis and Scandinavian, British and South-African Literature.

Zeljka Svrljuga is Professor of American Literature at the University of Bergen. She has published a number of articles and a monograph on the aesthetics of suffering and essays on African American and Caribbean literature.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Jorunn Svensen Gjerden (Editore)
• Editore: de Gruyter Brill
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.2019
• EAN: 9789004395206
• ISBN: 978-90-04-39520-6
• Pagine: 232
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Peso: 476 g
• Serie: Cross/Cultures
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie