title: INTRODUCTION. Infamous Bodies, Corrective Histories
abstract: For a brief moment in early 2016, months before her career-defining visual album Lemonade dropped, entertainer and icon Beyonc Knowles Car ter was tied to a rumored film proj ect on Sarah Baartman, the early nineteenthcentury African performer known in Eu rope as the Venus Hottentot.Baartman, performing in Eu rope from 1810 until her death in France in 1815, is perhaps the most infamous of bodies when thinking through the global tragedy and travesty that defines the relationship between Enlighte