Venus
Editorial Theatre Communications Group
Fecha de edición noviembre 2008
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781559361354
Libro
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Resumen del libro
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.
