Venus
165 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1997
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ISBN: 9781559361354
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Publication date: 1 April 1997
Description
Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks. She was befriended, bought and bedded by a doctor who advanced his scientific career through his anatomical measurements of her after her premature death.
