British Library Catalogue.
Jeanne Duval
Standard Name: Duval, Jeanne
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charles Baudelaire | In 1842 he began a relationship with the mixed-race actress Jeanne Duval
(who a century and a half later was transformed into the narrator of Angela Carter
's title story in her Black Venus... |
| Textual Production | Maud Sulter | The Scottish National Portrait Gallery
featured MS
's exhibition entitled Jeanne Duval
: a Melodrama, and published at Edinburgh her related text bearing the same title. Donald, Ann. “Tracing the thin black line”. Scotsman.com: Scotland on Sunday. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Angela Carter | Black Venus re-interprets actual women of history whose public image has been demonized, like Lizzie Borden
the alleged of murderess and Jeanne Duval
(a mixed-race woman who suffered from syphilis, mistress and muse of Charles Baudelaire |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maud Sulter | Pursuing her established interest in the Black presence in Europe, MS
here relates the story of Duval
, mistress of the French poet Charles Baudelaire
, the Black Venus of his poetry, who was fictionalised... |
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