Natasha Gordon-Chipembere is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York.

Claiming Sarah Baartman: a Legacy to Grasp Natasha Gordon-Chipembere * PART I: The Archive: Disrupting the Colonial Narrative * 'Body' of Evidence: Saartjie Baartmann and the Archive Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu * 'My Tongue Softens on the other name': Poetry and People in Sarah Baartmann's Natural World Yvette Abrahams/ Khib Omsis * Coercive Performances: Sarah Baartman and Slaves for Auction Hershini Bhana Young * Baartman and the Private Gabeba Baderoon * Placing and (Re) placing the 'Venus Hottentot': An Archeology of Pornography, Race and Power * Sheila Smith Mckoy * PART II: Troubling the 'Truth': Corporeal Representations * Sara Baartman, Biography and the Modalities of Truth Desiree Lewis * "I Wanna Love Something Wild"-A Reading of Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus Ilaria Oddenino * "Just ask the scientists": Troubling the 'Hottentot' and Scientific Racism in Bessie Head's Maru and Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy Z'étoile Imma * Staging the body of the (M) other:the "Hottentot Venus" and the "Wild Dancing Bushman" Karlien van der Schyff * Under Cuvier's Microscope: the Dissection of Michelle Obama in the twenty-first Century Natasha Gordon-Chipembere