Hottentot venus
(2015)
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2015
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (14hr., 48 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781490697673 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13520798, 1490697675 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13520798
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Robin Miles
Barbara Chase-Riboud is an award-winning poet, novelist, scholar, and sculptor. Hottentot Venus, a 2004 BCALA Literary Award winner, focuses on Sarah Blaartman, an African tribewoman who, because of her prominent sexual characteristics, was paraded as a freak before audiences in England and Paris. This mesmerizing novel reflects the racism and cruelty of turn-of-the-century Eurocentric culture, but it also reveals Sarah's remarkable strength of spirit
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