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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Mulattin > Motiv
Literatur
Tragic, The, in literature.
Racially mixed women in literature.
Race in literature.
Jewish women in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Juives dans la litterature.
Race dans la litterature.
Tragique dans la litterature.
Metisses dans la litterature.
USA
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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