From: valston-AT-email.arizona.edu
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:01:04 -0700
Subject: RE: sara baartman aka "hottentot venus"


Check Fordham University's English Dept. for Christianse.
Vermonja
>-- Original Message --
>Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 10:11:27 -0500
>Subject: sara baartman aka "hottentot venus"
>From: cs <christina.sharpe-AT-tufts.edu>
>To: "postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu" <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>
>
>Dear List Members,
>
>Another question.  I've done a lot of research on Sara Baartman (I'd be
glad
>to submit a bibliography for interested people) but I wonder if someone
can
>help me figure out the following: When in South Africa would people have
>become aware of her history?  I know that in the mid 1990s (95-96) Griqua's
>and others began to ask for her remains to be returned to South Africa.

>But
>I'm struggling to figure out when black South Africans became aware of her
>again (if they were ever not aware).  In the US William Stanton's Leopard's
>spots was published in the 50s.
>
>And does anyone know how to contact either/both Yvette Abrahams or Yvette
>Christianse?
>
>Thanks to everyone in advance.
>
>Christina Sharpe
>Asst. Professor of English
>Tufts University
>
>
>
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