Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices

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Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices

Author	: Anonim
File Size	: 52,6 Mb
Publisher	: BRILL
Language	: English
Release Date	: 15 July 2019
ISBN	: 9789004407916
Pages	: 229 pages

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Exploring the Black Venus Figure in Aesthetic Practices by Anonim Book PDF Summary

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.

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