Venus in Two Acts by Saidiya Hartman

Venus in Two Acts

Saidiya Hartman

14 pages digital 2008

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This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestles with the impossibility of discovering anything about her that hasn't already been stated. As an emblematic figure of the enslaved woman in the Atl...

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