Venus
| By: | Suzan-Lori Parks |
| Publisher: | Theatre Communications Group |
| Print ISBN: | 9781559361354 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781559367387 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Suzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called "Hottentot Venus," an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her extraordinary physiognomy; in particular, her enormous buttocks. She was befriended, bought and bedded by a doctor who advanced his scientific career through his anatomical measurements of her after her premature death.