Transatlantic spectacles of race
Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder.
Transatlantic spectacles of race the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse / [electronic resource] : Kimberly Snyder Manganelli. - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (256 p.) - American literatures initiative . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'.
9780813549910 0813549914
Race in literature.
Tragic, The, in literature.
Racially mixed women in literature.
Electronic books.
PN56.W6 / M35 2012
809/.933522
Transatlantic spectacles of race the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse / [electronic resource] : Kimberly Snyder Manganelli. - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (256 p.) - American literatures initiative . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'.
9780813549910 0813549914
Race in literature.
Tragic, The, in literature.
Racially mixed women in literature.
Electronic books.
PN56.W6 / M35 2012
809/.933522