Transatlantic spectacles of race : the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse /
"The tragic mulatta was a stock figure in nineteenth-century American literature, an attractive mixed-race woman who became a casualty of the color line. The tragic muse was an equally familiar figure in Victorian British culture, an exotic and alluring Jewish actress whose profession placed he...
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | The American Literatures Initiative
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj366 |
Table of Contents:
- 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'.