Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985.
"What importance does 'race' have as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory?... Race, Writing, and Difference is not a manifesto composed by several essayists who share one agenda. Rather, the essays collected here manifest the wide variety of critical approaches through which one may discuss the complex interplay among race, writing, and difference." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Selected Contents:
"Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth Century Art, Medicine, and Literature" Sander Gilman
Illustrations:
Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863
Édouard Manet, Nana, 1877
William Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress, pl.2, engraving, 1731
Franz von Bayros, "The Servant," ca. 1890
"The Hottentot Venus," Georges Cuvier, "Extrait d’observations faites sur le cadavre d’une femme connue à Paris et à Londres sous le nom de Vénus Hottentotte,", 1817
"The Ball of the Duchess Du Barry," popular engraving, 1829
"The Hottentot Apron." Johannes Müller, "Ueber die äusseren Geschlechtstheile der Buschmänninnen," figs. 1 and 2, 1834
"The Hottentot Venus," popular engraving, ca. 1850
Edwin Long, The Babylonian Marriage Market, 1882
"The Russian Helen." Tarnowsky, "Fisionomie di prostitute russe," pl. 25, 1893
"The Madwoman/Prostitute." Tarnowsky, "Fisionomie di prostitute russe," pl. 17, 1893
The "Hottentot Apron" (figs. a and b) and other genital anomalies. Cesare Lombroso and Guillaume Ferrero, La donna deliquente: La prostituta e la donna normale, pl. 1, 1893
The Hottentot buttocks (figs. b and c) and an Ethiopian prostitute. Lombroso and Ferrero, La donna deliquente, pl. 2, 1893
An Italian Prostitute. Abele de Blasio, "Staetopigia in prostitute," pl.1, 1905
Pablo Picasso, Olympia, 1901
Frontispiece. August Barthelemy, Syphilis, 1840
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