Narrating blackness : studies in femininity, sexuality and race in European and American art of the nineteenth-century

This dissertation is an exploration of the representation of black female subjects within American and European art of the nineteenth century. The popularity of Cleopatra among artists and specifically her nineteenth-century re-incarnation as a black woman, has been used as a starting point for an e...

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Main Author: Nelson, Charmaine Andrea
Published: University of Manchester 2001
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540694