Hottentot Venus: A NovelKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007 M12 18 - 336 páginas It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon’s physician and the most famous naturalist in Europe, the Baron George Cuvier, whose encounter with her will inspire a theory of race that will change European science forever. Evoking the grand tradition of such “monster” tales as Frankenstein and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Barbara Chase Riboud, prize-winning author of the classic Sally Hemings, again gives voice to an “invisible” of history. In this powerful saga, Sarah Baartman, for more than 200 years known only as the mysterious lady in the glass cage, comes vividly and unforgettably to life. |
Contenido
1 | |
3 | |
13 | |
The next day I left | 28 |
The Caesar farm stood | 43 |
I first heard of the Hottentot | 56 |
I found myself standing | 72 |
Part II | 87 |
So this was the man who | 174 |
Despite all of my husbands promises | 184 |
Part III | 197 |
To Baron Georges Léopold Cuvier | 199 |
The sharp light was almost blinding | 219 |
I could feel the Venuss gaze upon me | 230 |
At first I didnt mind | 245 |
When I returned | 266 |
I created a sensation | 89 |
It was Master Hendrick who found | 95 |
I looked up at the sign | 110 |
A month later Reverend Wedderburn sued | 125 |
When I appeared at the Kings Court | 138 |
My dear Cassandra | 156 |
The trial had made me even more famous | 160 |
As always the white man won | 277 |
I had chosen red glove leather | 286 |
Master Tiedeman made his way across | 291 |
Part IV | 305 |
Epilogue | 307 |
Acknowledgments | 319 |
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Términos y frases comunes
African Afrikaans Alice amongst animals apron BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD Baron Cuvier BARON GEORGES LEOPOLD beautiful believe birds Blainville body cage called Cape lion Cape Town carriage circus color Comparative Anatomy contract Cour des Fontaines dead death dressed Dutch England English month everything exhibition eyes face famous feet female freak Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire GEORGES LEOPOLD CUVIER giraffe hair hand head Hendrick Caesar heron HMS Exeter Hottentot Venus human Khoe Khoekhoe knew laughed lips live London looked Lord Lord Ellenborough Macauley Master Bullock Master Darwin Master Dunlop Master Hendrick Master Réaux Master Taylor Mistress monsters Museum Napoleon neck Negro never night orangutan Paris purple heron race rainmaker Reverend Freehouseland Saartjie Saartjie Baartman Sarah Baartman servant ship Sieur Réaux skin slave slavery soul species stared steatopygia stood thing thought turned Wageninge walked woman women word
Pasajes populares
Página 1 - No retrospect will take us to the true beginning; and whether our prologue be in heaven or on earth, it is but a fraction of that all-presupposing fact with which our story sets out.
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