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In eight pages this paper presents a detailed summary of Barbara Chase-Riboud’s historical novel, Hottentot Venus. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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France, and author of several historical novels, including the controversial work Sally Hemings, the slave of Thomas Jefferson, by whom he reportedly fathered several children. Her fifth historical novel,
Hottentot Venus, featured another woman of color about whom very little is known. During the late eighteenth- and early-nineteenth centuries, African-born Saartjie "Sarah" Baartman was the popular attraction in
exhibitions of circus animals and human oddities throughout England and France. Treated little different from the animals with whom she shared the stage, Saartjie was the object of public
scrutiny that bordered on the perverse by common folk and titled aristocrats alike. She was bought, sold, and exploited by a succession of white men before finally her short,
slim body gave out to disease and addiction. This novel covers important periods in history such as the French Revolution and the U.S. Civil War. It reads like
a veritable whos who of the period and includes such prominent figures as Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Darwin, and Jane Austen. Based primarily on historical documents, Chase-Riboud constructs a fictional
narrative that finally provides Saartjie Baartman with her own voice that had been silenced in life by abusive men and social oppression. The author totally immerses herself in the
tragic Venus many hardships, imagining what she saw, felt, and experienced during her short and tumultuous life. This characterization enables the author to present an engaging biographical portrait while
at the same time probe the origins of racism in the West. The text itself is comprised of four parts and an Epilogue.
Each of the first three parts opens with observations and excerpts of letters from French naturalist and Emperor Napoleons personal physician Baron Georges Leopold Cuvier on the human body
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