摘要：This paper follows Sander Gilman in his examination of iconography and how icons have functioned in subsuming the identity of entire classes of people. In the late nineteenth century, the icon of the Hottentot female stood in to represent the identity of the black female. This paper examines the ideological forces that drive the representation of the black female, its relation to the slave trade, and the ways in which the icon can be deconstnicted and dismantled to enact resistance and agency.
