Baudelaire’s Paris Looking at Africa, and Vice Versa

Title: Baudelaire’s Paris Looking at Africa, and Vice Versa
Creator: Rolls, Alistair; Johnson, Marguerite
Relation: Dix-Neuf Vol. 28, Issue 2, p. 196-207
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2024.2334112
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2024
Description: This article tests the textual differences between those of Baudelaire's poems that are typically considered ‘Parisian' or ‘foreign'. It argues that ‘La Belle Dorothée' is not only a poem about an African gaze on France, or indeed only a poem set in Africa, but that it can also be shown to represent an allegory for a Parisian view of self. The more overtly Parisian ‘À une passante’, for its part, glances at more than a poet struck down in Paris by the shock of Modernity; it also gazes inter alia on African beauty, Sara Baartman, aka the Hottentot Venus.
Subject: Charles Baudelaire; Sara Baartman; Hottentot Venus; 'La Belle Dorothée'; 'À une passante'; autodifferentiation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1506366
Identifier: uon:55853
Identifier: ISSN:1478-7318
Language: eng
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