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Barbara Chase-Riboud, Hottentot Venus: A Novel. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 2004. 336 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-3208-3 (pbk.).

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Barbara Chase-Riboud, Hottentot Venus: A Novel. New York, NY: Anchor Books, 2004. 336 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-3208-3 (pbk.).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

Laura J. Mitchell
Laura J. Mitchell
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University of California, Irvine
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Itinerario , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , November 2005 , pp. 144 - 146
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 2005

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1 Barbara Chase-Riboud locates Baartman's birth in 1789, which was the scholarly consensus when she wrote the book. Forthcoming research, however, suggests, Baartman might have been older.

2 Chase-Riboud, , Sally Hemmings: A Novel. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979Google Scholar; Idem, Echo of Lions. New York, NY: Morrow, 1989Google Scholar.

3 Maseko, Zola, The Life and Times of Sara Baartman, the Hottentot Venus. New York, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 1999; and:Google ScholarAbrams, Yvette, ‘Images of Sara Baartman: Sexuality, Race and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Britain’, in Pierson, Ruth Roach and Chaudhuri, Nupur, eds, Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998, 220–236Google Scholar.

4 Kolb, Peter, The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope. New York, NY: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1968.Google Scholar