Prejudice in Venus Traces the Roots of Black Female Iconography

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dc.contributor.advisorLampert, Paul
dc.creatorRobinson, Jamie Owen
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T15:38:27Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T15:38:27Z
dc.date.copyright2015-04-16
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T15:38:27Z
dc.degree.disciplineTheatre
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractThis paper aims to verify how a ‘freak’ show performer named The Venus Hottentot of the early 1800’s in England and in France, came to symbolize the sexualized view of the black female icon today. My thesis production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ play Venus will demonstrate how Eurocentric prejudice in the colonial era shaped the historical facts that permeated around this South African woman’s life and death. In keeping with the play’s revised Afrocentric perspective on these alleged facts, ideas about directorial concepts for this show will validate how this play is relevant to contemporary artists and audiences through Parks’ elegant storytelling. This potential narrative of victimization, that could easily come off as maudlin, will be proven to require a sardonic political edge in order to succeed. The director’s challenges and premise, the writer’s background, the play’s roots in truth and fiction, along with production hurdles to overcome will all be discussed.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/30085
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectTheater
dc.subjectFine arts
dc.subject.keywordsTheatre
dc.subject.keywordsPlays
dc.subject.keywordsAfrican-american
dc.subject.keywordsFeminism
dc.subject.keywordsColonialism
dc.subject.keywordsSouth africa
dc.subject.keywordsEurocentric
dc.subject.keywordsAfrocentric
dc.subject.keywordsDirector
dc.subject.keywordsVictimization
dc.subject.keywordsBlack female icon
dc.subject.keywordsSlavery
dc.subject.keywordsFreak shows
dc.subject.keywordsVenus
dc.subject.keywordsHottentot
dc.subject.keywordsAnatomy
dc.subject.keywords19th century
dc.subject.keywordsPerversion
dc.subject.keywordsHistory
dc.subject.keywordsPrejudice
dc.subject.keywordsRacism
dc.subject.keywordsLove
dc.subject.keywordsAbuse
dc.subject.keywordsPower
dc.subject.keywordsNapoleon
dc.titlePrejudice in Venus Traces the Roots of Black Female Iconography
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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