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020 _a9780813549910
020 _a0813549914
020 _z9780813549873 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z9780813549880 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z0813549876
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_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aPN56.W6
_bM35 2012
082 0 0 _a809/.933522
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100 1 _aManganelli, Kimberly Snyder.
245 1 0 _aTransatlantic spectacles of race
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe tragic mulatta and the tragic muse /
_cKimberly Snyder Manganelli.
260 _aNew Brunswick, NJ :
_bRutgers University Press,
_cc2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (256 p.)
490 0 _aAmerican literatures initiative
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: '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'.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aRace in literature.
650 0 _aTragic, The, in literature.
650 0 _aRacially mixed women in literature.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813549910/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c36004
_d36004