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• Author/Creator:Manganelli, Kimberly Snyder.
  
• Title:Transatlantic spectacles of race : the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse / Kimberly Snyder Manganelli.
  
• ISBN:9780813549873 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  0813549876 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  9780813549880 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0813549884 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  9780813549910 (e-book)
  0813549914 (e-book)
  
• Published/Created:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012.
  
• Physical Description:xi, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  

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  • Call Number: PN56.W6 M35X 2012
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Format:Book
• Series:American literatures initiative
  
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• 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'.
  
• Subjects:Racially mixed women in literature.
  Tragic, The, in literature.
  Race in literature.