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Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder.

Transatlantic Spectacles of Race The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse / [Recurso electrónico] : Kimberly Snyder Manganelli. - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (256 p.) - American literatures initiative . - 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'.

Libro Electrónico

ISBN: 9780813549910 0813549914

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Race in literature.
Tragic, The, in literature.
Racially mixed women in literature.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN56.W6 / M35 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.933522