Word: hottentot
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...Africa's leading writer in Afrikaans harks back to the 18th and 19th centuries for a conscience-stricken novel about Cupido Cockroach, a character who despite his colorful name is based on a real historical figure. After a hell-raising youth, Cupido converts to Christianity and becomes the first "Hottentot", or Khoi, missionary ordained in the Cape region. The passionate new recruit is sent to proselytize in a remote area - where the church cruelly forgets him, plunging him into near-fatal hardship. As in more than a dozen other novels, including A Dry White Season (the 1989 movie version...
According to Department of Afro-American Studies Chair Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., who moderated the event, the two writers were brought together because of their work on Venus Hottentot, a South African woman who was brought to Europe in the 19th century after being told she would be a dancer, but was instead caged, exhibited and prodded by doctors...
Alexander began the reading, reciting poetry representative of her entire oeuvre, including “The Venus Hottentot, 1825,” as well as poems based on dreams from her Antebellum Dream Book...
...take place in a strange nowheresville and feature Greek-style choruses or Brechtian song interludes. For one play, F------ A (Parks doesn't use the dashes), she invented a new language that some characters use when they talk about sex. In Venus, her epic on the life of the Hottentot Venus, a 19th century African woman displayed as a freak because of her huge buttocks, one scene runs through the intermission. "I try to tell the story I'm hearing in my head, by any means necessary," she says. "And sometimes it comes out looking weird...
...round tummy showing--on a divan at the snooty Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. She is gossiping mercilessly about filmdom's high and mighty (who has a potty mouth, who is a racist), trashing the town's powerful directors, ridiculing scripts (wait till you hear about Hottentot Venus) and dishing just as much about herself--a girl born in Britain, with a plummy British accent and skin the color of caffe latte. Taking tea with Thandie (pronounced Tan-dee) turns out to be a jolt of caffeine straight to the system. Come prepared for opinions slathered with irony...