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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE: Plaster Cast, an Allegory
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Black Women in the French Imaginary
CHAPTER ONE
The Tale of Three Women: The Biographies
CHAPTER TWO
Entering Darkness: Colonial Anxieties and the Cultural Production of Sarah Baartmann
CHAPTER THREE
Ourika Mania: Cultural Consumption of (Dis)Remembered Blackness
CHAPTER FOUR
Jeanne Duval: Site of Memory
CONCLUSION
Vénus Noire
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY