Transatlantic spectacles of race : the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse /

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"The tragic mulatta was a stock figure in nineteenth-century American literature, an attractive mixed-race woman who became a casualty of the color line. The tragic muse was an equally familiar figure in Victorian British culture, an exotic and alluring Jewish actress whose profession placed he...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: American Literatures Initiative
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2012.
Colección:The American Literatures Initiative
Temas:
Racially mixed women in literature.
Tragic, The, in literature.
Race in literature.
Jewish women in literature.
Métisses dans la littérature.
Tragique dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Juives dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Literatur
Mulattin > Motiv
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: 'I thought that to seem was to be': spectacles of race in the nineteenth-century transatlantic imaginary
  • 'Stamped and molded by pleasure': the transnational mulatta in Jamaica and Saint-Domingue
  • 'Fascinating allurements of gold': New Orleans's 'copper-colored nymphs' and the tragic mulatta
  • 'Oh heavens! what am I?': the tragic mulatta as sensation heroine
  • 'I wonder what market he means that daughter for': the beautiful jewess and the tragic muse
  • 'After all, living is but to play a part': the tragic mulatta plays the tragic muse
  • Conclusion: 'I know what I am': race and the triumphant 'new woman'.

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