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Book Synopsis The Black Venus Contract by : Philip Atlee
Download or read book The Black Venus Contract written by Philip Atlee and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a CIA agent needs rescuing in South America, it’s Joe Gall who gets the call, in this thriller from the Edgar Award–nominated author. Joe Gall is on assignment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, living in a home with a housekeeper named Julietta—who happens to be a conduit to the South American country’s notorious October Eighth Movement. The group has abducted a legendary member of the CIA—and it’s up to Gall to get him back . . . This tale of international intrigue and adventure comes from Philip Atlee, “the John D. Macdonald of espionage fiction” (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times). “I admire Philip Atlee’s writing tremendously.” —Raymond Chandler
Book Synopsis The Black Venus Contract by : Philip Atlee
Download or read book The Black Venus Contract written by Philip Atlee and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vénus Noire written by Robin Mitchell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country's postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France's need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.
Book Synopsis Black Venus by : T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Download or read book Black Venus written by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExplores the treatment and image of the black female or "Black Venus" as seen in early 19th French literature./div
Book Synopsis The Makassar Strait Contract by : Philip Atlee
Download or read book The Makassar Strait Contract written by Philip Atlee and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mining operation could lead to an international incident: “I admire Philip Atlee’s writing tremendously.” —Raymond Chandler Off the coast of Indonesia, the Japanese are harvesting an incredible amount of manganese, a mineral highly prized in the manufacturing community, from the ocean floor. The question is: how are they getting it—and how can the United States get a piece of it? The only man for the job is Joe Gall, but this seemingly simple assignment is about to go sideways . . . This twist-filled adventure comes from the Edgar Award–nominated author who’s been called “the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction” (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times).
Book Synopsis Black Venus by : T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Download or read book Black Venus written by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory articulated in the works of Frantz Fanon and Toni Morrison, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting argues that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men. By inspiring repulsion, attraction, and anxiety, they gave rise in the nineteenth-century French male imagination to the primitive narrative of Black Venus. The book opens with an exploration of scientific discourse on black females, using Sarah Bartmann, the so-called Hottentot Venus, and natural scientist Georges Cuvier as points of departure. To further show how the image of a savage was projected onto the bodies of black women, Sharpley-Whiting moves into popular culture with an analysis of an 1814 vaudeville caricature of Bartmann, then shifts onto the terrain of canonical French literature and colonial cinema, exploring the representation of black women by Baudelaire, Balzac, Zola, Maupassant, and Loti. After venturing into twentieth-century film with an analysis of Josephine Baker’s popular Princesse Tam Tam, the study concludes with a discussion of how black Francophone women writers and activists countered stereotypical representations of black female bodies during this period. A first-time translation of the vaudeville show The Hottentot Venus, or Hatred of Frenchwomen supplements this critique of the French male gaze of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both intellectually rigorous and culturally intriguing, this study will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, feminist and gender studies, black studies, and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis The Judah Lion Contract by : Philip Atlee
Download or read book The Judah Lion Contract written by Philip Atlee and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A freelance operative must smuggle three people out of an African country after a coup in “one of the best of the Gall novels” (Don D’Ammassa, Hugo Award nominee). The dictator of Murundi has been deposed, and his only hope for getting out of the country safely is American operative Joe Gall. But it won’t be easy since the general who just took him down has agents on their tail—and their little entourage must count on Gall to protect them as they desperately try to make it across the border . . . This fast-paced international adventure comes from the Edgar Award finalist who has been called “the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction” (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times). “I admire Philip Atlee’s writing tremendously.” —Raymond Chandler
Book Synopsis The Hottentot Venus by : Rachel Holmes
Download or read book The Hottentot Venus written by Rachel Holmes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed biography of Sarah Baartman, once a slave and later a showgirl 'A significant and timely book ... Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary Review 'Impeccable ... In telling her extraordinary story, Holmes's fascinating book illuminates the forces which dominated her age, and resound in our own' Sunday Telegraph In 1810 the slave turned showgirl Sarah Baartman, London's most famous curiosity, became its legal cause célèbre. Famed for her exquisite physique – in particular her shapely bottom – she was stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped and ridiculed. This talented, tragic young South African woman became a symbol of exploitation, colonialism – and defiance. In this scintillating and vividly written book Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Baartman's extraordinary life for the first time.
Book Synopsis The Silken Baroness Contract by : Philip Atlee
Download or read book The Silken Baroness Contract written by Philip Atlee and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Edgar Award–nominated author:An agent for hire plays bodyguard to a titled beauty in Tenerife—and mixes partying with peril . . . Joe Gall, freelance operative, is assigned to protect a beautiful baroness under threat—and solve the mystery of who is after her. That means heading to the Canary Islands—and playing the part of a rich, hard-drinking American in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it . . . “[Philip Atlee is] the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction.” —Larry McMurtry, The New York Times “I admire Philip Atlee’s writing tremendously.” —Raymond Chandler
Book Synopsis The Green Wound Contract by : Philip Atlee
Download or read book The Green Wound Contract written by Philip Atlee and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “grand spy-chase novel . . . highly successful and realistic” that introduced the international operative with a lethal touch (Publishers Weekly). Secret agent Joe Gall has a puzzle to put together that stretches from the streets of Laredo, Texas, to the steamy island of Trinidad—and along the way, he must deal with a New Orleans nun with some surprising fighting skills as well as civil unrest in a small southern town . . . As he battles bad guys using all the smarts and survival tactics he learned from the CIA, there are two beautiful women who may hold the answers—but Gall has to start asking the right questions—in the debut thriller of this action-packed series that would go on to earn an Edgar Award nomination. “I admire Philip Atlee’s writing tremendously.” —Raymond Chandler
Book Synopsis The Ill Wind Contract by : Philip Atlee
Download or read book The Ill Wind Contract written by Philip Atlee and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heat is rising in Indonesia in this action-packed adventure by “the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction” (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times). When Joe Gall heads to Indonesia on an assignment to acquire a fortune in precious metals, he finds himself in the midst of an attempted coup and a civil war, a bloody battle fought by the military and the Communists. Now he has to guard something even more valuable than gold and silver—his own life—in this gripping thriller by the Edgar Award finalist. “I admire Philip Atlee’s writing tremendously.” —Raymond Chandler
Book Synopsis The Last Domino Contract by : Philip Atlee
Download or read book The Last Domino Contract written by Philip Atlee and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutonium has gone missing—and one man must prevent an explosion—in this thriller by the Edgar Award–nominated author. Freelancer Joe Gall has a new contract that sends him to South Korea, where stolen nuclear material must be recovered. Posing as a missionary—and assisted by a fervent believer determined to save his soul—Gall is caught among pursuers from both sides of the 38th parallel, as well as a rogue group intent on setting off World War III. He’ll have to stop them before things get radioactive . . . “[Philip Atlee is] the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction.” —Larry McMurtry, The New York Times “I admire Philip Atlee’s writing tremendously.” —Raymond Chandler
Book Synopsis Hottentot Venus by : Barbara Chase-Riboud
Download or read book Hottentot Venus written by Barbara Chase-Riboud and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon’s physician and the most famous naturalist in Europe, the Baron George Cuvier, whose encounter with her will inspire a theory of race that will change European science forever. Evoking the grand tradition of such “monster” tales as Frankenstein and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Barbara Chase Riboud, prize-winning author of the classic Sally Hemings, again gives voice to an “invisible” of history. In this powerful saga, Sarah Baartman, for more than 200 years known only as the mysterious lady in the glass cage, comes vividly and unforgettably to life.
Book Synopsis The Rockabye Contract by : Philip Atlee
Download or read book The Rockabye Contract written by Philip Atlee and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild plot leads a covert operative around the globe—and into deadly trouble: “I admire Philip Atlee’s writing tremendously.” —Raymond Chandler Joe Gall’s current assignment involves escorting a sexy folk singer on an international journey—but as always for the ex–CIA operative, there’s more going on behind the scenes. Before this job is through, Gall will find himself untangling a mystery involving a toy manufacturer, an assassination plot, and a dictator’s goons—and trying desperately to make it out alive . . . This classic series of action novels featuring the fearless freelancer comes from the Edgar Award–nominated author praised as “the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction” (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times).
Book Synopsis Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus by : Clifton Crais
Download or read book Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus written by Clifton Crais and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known. As the Hottentot Venus, she was seen by Westerners as alluring and primitive, a reflection of their fears and suppressed desires. But who was Sara Baartman? Who was the woman who became the Hottentot Venus? Based on research and interviews that span three continents, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus tells the entwined histories of an elusive life and a famous icon. In doing so, the book raises questions about the possibilities and limits of biography for understanding those who live between and among different cultures. In reconstructing Baartman's life, the book traverses the South African frontier and its genocidal violence, cosmopolitan Cape Town, the ending of the slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, London and Parisian high society, and the rise of racial science. The authors discuss the ramifications of discovering that when Baartman went to London, she was older than originally assumed, and they explore the enduring impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas about women, race, and sexuality. The book concludes with the politics involved in returning Baartman's remains to her home country, and connects Baartman's story to her descendants in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus offers the authoritative account of one woman's life and reinstates her to the full complexity of her history.
Book Synopsis The Canadian Bomber Contract by : Philip Atlee
Download or read book The Canadian Bomber Contract written by Philip Atlee and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man must stop separatists targeting a tourist destination on the US border in this thriller by “the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction” (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times). A movement is afoot in Canada’s majority French–speaking province, Quebec, to separate from the rest of the country, and the FLQ is the organization leading the way. But some supporters of the cause are impatient—and want to take the fight to another level. Now ex–CIA agent John Gall is being called in to stop an armed splinter group—and an explosive terrorist attack at Niagara Falls—in this action-packed thriller by an Edgar Award–nominated author.
Book Synopsis Black Venus 2010 by : Deborah Willis
Download or read book Black Venus 2010 written by Deborah Willis and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus."
