Hottentot Venus Book Discussion
If you missed October’s discussion of Hottentot Venus, join Hugh and members of other Ethical Societies for a Zoom dialogue on Tuesday, November 2, at 5:30PM. Zoom invite: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
It’s a story of a resilient woman who is burdened by overlapping prejudices that follow her from her home to South Africa to a Europe that exoticizes and exploits her. As the Washington Post put it, Chase-Riboud “conjures the pain of some of the most sensitive and hurtful relations between the powerful and the powerless whatever their color, whatever their gender. ,… In this chilling and mournful novel, Chase-Riboud brings back to life a woman whose existence as a symbol has obscured her essence.”