Venus : a play
(2012)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Theatre Communications Group : Made available through hoopla, 2012
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781559367387 (electronic bk.) MWT11864287, 1559367385 (electronic bk.) 11864287
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks. She was befriended, bought and bedded by a doctor who advanced his scientific career through his anatomical measurements of her after her premature death
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