Transatlantic spectacles of race
Subtitle: the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse
By: Kimberly Snyder Manganelli
Series: American literatures initiative
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780813549873; 9780813549880; 9780813549910
Subjects: Racially mixed women in literature; Tragic, The, in literature; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: 'I thought that to seem was to be': spectacles of race in the nineteenth-century transatlantic imaginary; title: 'Stamped and molded by pleasure': the transnational mulatta in Jamaica and Saint-Domingue; title: 'Fascinating allurements of gold': New Orleans's 'copper-colored nymphs' and the tragic mulatta; title: 'Oh heavens! what am I?': the tragic mulatta as sensation heroine; title: 'I wonder what market he means that daughter for': the beautiful jewess and the tragic muse; title: 'After all, living is but to play a part': the tragic mulatta plays the tragic muse; title: Conclusion: 'I know what I am': race and the triumphant 'new woman'.