The life and times of sarah baartman
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The Life beginning Times invite Sarah Baartman
South Mortal film
| The Life post Times enterprise Sarah Baartman | |
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| Directed by | Zola Maseko |
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Running time | 53 minutes |
| Country | South Africa |
| Language | English |
The Life person in charge Times contempt Sarah Baartman is a South Continent documentary vinyl directed timorous Zola Maseko.
Synopsis
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Production
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The Life and Times of Sara Baartman - The Hottentot Venus ()
"When
20 year old Sara Baartman got on a boat that was to take her from Cape
Town to London in , she did not know she would never see her home
again, or that she would become the icon of racial inferiority and black
female sexuality for the next years. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN is a documentary film about this Khoi Khoi
woman who was taken from South Africa and exhibited as a freak in
Britain. In she was taken to France and became the
object of scientific research that formed the bedrock of European ideas
about black female sexuality. She died the next year. But
even after her death, Sara Baartman remained an object of imperialist
scientific investigation. In the name of Science, her sexual organs and
brain were preserved and displayed in the Musee de l'Homme in Paris
until as recently as Using historical drawings,
cartoons, legal documents, and interviews with noted cultural historians
and anthropologists, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN deconstructs
the social, political, scientific, and philosophical assumptions that
transformed one young woman into a representation of savage sexuality and racial
inferiority."
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When 20 year old Sara Baartman got on a boat that was to take her from Cape Town to London in , she could not have known that she would never see her home again. Nor, as she stood on the deck and saw her homeland disappear behind her could she have known that she would become the icon of racial inferiority and black female sexuality for the next years.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN is the fascinating story of this Khoi Khoi woman who was taken from South Africa, and then exhibited as a freak across Britain. The image and idea of "The Hottentot Venus" swept through British popular culture. A court battle waged by abolitionists to free her from her exhibitors failed.
In she was taken to France, and became the object of scientific and medical research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about black female sexuality. She died the next year. But even after her death, Sara Baartman remained an object of imperialist scientific investigation. In the name of Science, her sexual organs and brain were displayed in the Musee de l'Homme in Paris until as recently as
Using historical drawings, cartoons, legal documents, and interviews with noted cultural historians and anthropologists, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN deconstructs the social, political, scientific and p