Hottentot Venus: A Novel - Rilegato

Chase-Riboud, Barbara

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ISBN 10: 0385508565 ISBN 13: 9780385508568

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2003

Riassunto

A shocking historical novel re-creates the tragic life of Sarah Baartman, an African bushwoman born in the colony of Good Hope, South Africa, in 1790 and the exploitation and cruelty she faced in nineteenth-century Europe as a subject of scientific curiosity, in a compelling novel of racism, sexism, and European imperialism.

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Praise for Barbara Chase-Riboud

“Any book by Chase-Riboud is bound to be a knock-down, drag-out good read.” —Washington Times

“Barbara Chase-Riboud writes with a quill of eloquence that is indeed a sword, sounding with the spirituality of Toni Morrison and the passion of Charles Dickens.” —Elaine Brown, author of A Taste of Power and The Condemnation of Little B.

Praise for Sally Hemings

“Barbara Chase-Riboud is a consummate artist. She invites the reader to consider if resistance and submission can be employed as instruments to live through hazardous times. In a startling book, Chase-Riboud has shown us the cruelty of slavery and the romance of love . . . She has determined to keep us honest about history and give us a great read.” —Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“This is one of the great American stories and it is admirably told.” —New York Times

“Unforgettable ... Extremely moving and poetic.” —The New Republic

“An act of great daring ... Deeply moving.” —Chicago Sun-Times

“Exquisitely crafted ... A sensitive life study of a truly extraordinary woman: complex, courageous, irresistibly attractive ... elegantly self-possessed.” —Cosmopolitan
Praise for Echo of Lions
“Echo of Lions gives us Barbara Chase-Riboud's characteristic awesome research and brilliant dramatization of, I think, the most gripping, significant and epic saga that a century of slaveships ever produced." —Alex Haley, author of Roots
Praise for The President’s Daughter

“Chase-Riboud's passion for history and her obsession with the contradictions of sex and race that underlay the founding of the union bring great richness to The President's Daughter." —San Francisco Chronicle

L'autore:

BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD is a Carl Sandberg Prize–winning poet and the prizewinning author of four acclaimed, widely translated historical novels, the bestselling Sally Hemings, Valide: A Novel of a Harem, Echo of Lions (about the Amistad mutiny), and The President’s Daughter, a prequel to Sally Hemings. She is a winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and received a knighthood in arts and letters from the French government in 1996. Chase-Riboud is also a renowned sculptor whose award-winning monuments grace Lower Manhattan. She is the rare living artist honored with a personal exhibition, “The Monument Drawings,” in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Born and raised in Philadelphia of Canadian American descent, she was educated at Yale University and is the recipient of numerous fellowships and honorary degrees. She divides her time between Paris, Rome, and the United States.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0385508565
• ISBN 13: 9780385508568
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320