‘What is The Saartjie Project?’
Behind the Scenes of The Saartjie Project’ (august 2008)
<p>Inside the Saartjie Project from safidi tyehimba on Vimeo.</p>
The Saartjie Project on FOX 5 Morning News (july 2009)
Who is Sara Baartman
Spokenword Artist DeDe Hunt aka Quietstorm created a short film called “Who is Sara Baartman” (2007) that chronicles her life and its impact today.
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Rachael Holmes author of African Queen discuss how Saartjie came to England, why she became an overnight sensation, how colonial sexual fascination impacted her and how attitudes towards large bottoms have shifted over time.
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Films:
The Life and Times of Sara Baartman: The Hottentot Venus by Zola Maseko
Links:
Center for African American Genealogical Research
Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children
‘Hottentot Venus Goes Home’ BBC
Carla Williams’ Hottentot Venus bibliography
Articles and Books:
Alexander, Elizabeth. The Venus Hottentot, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990.
Arnold, Marion. Women and Art in South Africa, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996.
“Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth Century Art, Medicine, and Literature, in Gates Jr., Henry Louis, ed. “Race,” Writing, and Difference, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985.
The Hottentot Venus Is Going Home
Source: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education,
No. 35 (Spring, 2002), pp. 63
Collins, P. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans,
Gender and The New Racism. 2005. Routledge: New York.
Chase-Riboud, B. Hottentot Venus. 2003. Doubleday: New York.
Crais, C. and Scully, P. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus:
A Ghost Story and a Biography. 2008. Princeton University Press
White, Luise. The Traffic in Heads: Bodies, Borders and the
Articulation of Regional Histories, Journal of Southern African
Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, Special Issue for Terry Ranger
(Jun., 1997), pp. 325-338. Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Musée de l’Homme en relief par les anaglyphes [stereographs featuring the body cast of the Hottentot Venus], Paris: Musée de l’Homme, 1939.
Magubane, Zine. “Which Bodies Matter? Feminism, Poststructuralism, Race, and the Curious Theoretical Odyssey of the "Hottentot Venus". Gender and Society, Vol. 15, No. 6 (Dec., 2001), pp. 816-834. Published by: Sage Publications, Inc.
Gourdine, Angeletta K. M. “Fashioning the Body [as] Politic in Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust", African American Review, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 499-511. Published by: St. Louis University.
Parks, Suzan L. The Rear End Exists.
Brandes, Kerstin. "Re-Considering Saartjie Baartman: Configurations of the 'Hottentot Venus' in Contemporary Cultural Discourse, Politics, and Art," in Helene von Oldenburg and Andrea Sick, editors, Virtual Minds. Congress of Fictitious Figures. Bremen (thealit) 2004.
Reiss, Benjamin. “P.T. Barnum, Joice Heth and Antebellum Spectacles of Race,” American Quarterly, Vol.51, No. 1 (March 1999).
Williams, Carla. “The Erotic Image is Naked and Dark,” in Deborah Willis, ed., Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography, The New Press: New York, 1994.
