The Black Venus. African female bodies as objects of desire between colonial sexism and racism

Résumé

This article aims at analyzing, through the point of view of deconstructive pedagogy, the educational and cultural mediators (institutional devices, literary forms, songs etc.) which, during the period of Italian colonialism, contributed to the rise of feelings and ideas regarding the African female body based on exoticism, eroticism and biological racism, which led to highly hierarchic relationships between
colonizers and native women – between the white man and the black woman.