Black Female Bodies and the "White" View: The Dahomey Amazon Shows in Poland at the End of the Nineteenth Century
[ 1 ] Ośrodek Etnologii i Antropologii Współczesności, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk | [ P ] pracownik
2020
artykuł naukowy
angielski
- view
- gaze
- Otherness
- Dahomey
- Amazons
- ethnographic shows
- female body
EN This article contributes to the studies of living human exhibitions in Eastern Europe or, more precisely, in Polish territory in the late partition period. The article intends to demonstrate the strategies of presenting Black African women in Warsaw, Cracow, and Poznań. The idea of construing the view has been used as a key concept to look into the processes of the sexualization and racialization of the Others’ female bodies and the construction of “savagery” in the context of nineteenth-century visual culture.
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