- 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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