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Auteur(s) : Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder
Titre(s) : Transatlantic spectacles of race [Texte imprimé] : the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse / Kimberly Snyder Manganelli
Publication : New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2012
Description matérielle : xi, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : American literatures initiative
Lien à la collection : American literatures initiative
Comprend : 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'.
Note(s) : "A book in the American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Describes the cultural reactions to women slaves of mixed race and Jewish actresses
in the United States, Britain, and France ; "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 her
alongside the 'fallen woman.' In Transatlantic Spectacles of Race, Kimberly Manganelli
argues that the tragic mulatta and tragic muse, who have heretofore been read separately,
must be understood as two sides of the same phenomenon. In both cases, the eroticized
and racialized female body is put on public display, as a highly enticing commodity
in the nineteenth-century marketplace. Tracing these figures through American, British,
and French literature and culture, Manganelli constructs a host of surprising literary
genealogies, from Zelica to Daniel Deronda, from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Lady Audley's
Secret. Bringing together an impressive array of cultural texts that includes novels,
melodramas, travel narratives, diaries, and illustrations, Transatlantic Spectacles
of Race reveals the value of transcending literary, national, and racial boundaries."--Cover
p. [4]
Sujet(s) : Mulâtres -- Dans la littérature
Femmes -- Dans la littérature
Juives -- Dans la littérature
Littérature -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813549873 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0813549876 (hardcover) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9780813549880 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0813549884 (pbk.) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780813549910 (e-book). - ISBN 0813549914 (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42582061z
Notice n° :
FRBNF42582061
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