Transatlantic spectacles of race : the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2012]
Series:	American literatures initiative
Subjects:	Race in literature. Tragic, The, in literature. Racially mixed women in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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'.