| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse |
| Author: |
ManganelliKimberly Snyder, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
New Brunswick, NJ |
| Published: |
Rutgers University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2012 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (256 p.). |
| Series: |
American literatures initiative |
| Subject: |
Race in literature - |
| Subject: |
Tragic, The, in literature - |
| Subject: |
Racially mixed women in literature - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813549910/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780813549910electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0813549914electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813549873hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0813549876hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813549880pbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction: 'I thought that to seem was to be': spectacles of racein the nineteenth-centurytransatlantic 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' |