Hottentot Venus : a novel

Summary: "Born in the colony of Good Hope, South Africa, in 1789, Sarah Baartman was taken to London at the age of twenty by an English surgeon, who promised her fame and fortune. Dubbed the ₃Hottentot Venus, ₄ she was paraded naked in Piccadilly in a freak-show exhibition and subjected to the unabashed stares and crude comments of the British public, which resulted in a sensational trial for her custody by British abolitionists."--Cover.

Item details

ISBN: 0385508565
ISBN: 9780385508568
Physical Description: print
320 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2003.

Contents / Notes

Awards Note:

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award, 2004.

Find similar items by subject

Subject:

Baartman, Sarah Fiction
Baartman, Sarah
Women, Khoikhoi South Africa Fiction
South Africans Europe Fiction
South Africa Fiction
Exploitation Fiction
Women, Black Fiction
Racism Fiction
Europe Fiction
Exploitation
Racism
South Africans
Women, Black
Women, Khoikhoi
Europe
South Africa

Genre:

Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Currently available copies

5 out of 5 copies are currently available at PINES. (Show)
2 out of 2 copies are currently available at Flint River Regional Library System. (Show)
1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Peachtree City Library.