Transatlantic spectacles of race [electronic resource] : the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse / Kimberly Snyder Manganelli.
Material type: TextSeries: American literatures initiative | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)ISBN:- 9780813549910
- 0813549914
- 809/.933522 23
- PN56.W6 M35 2012
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'.
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