Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse
Kimberly Snyder Manganelli
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Hardback. .
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813549873
SKU
V9780813549873
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About Kimberly Snyder Manganelli
KIMBERLY SNYDER MANGANELLI is an assistant professor of English at Clemson University.
Reviews for Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse
"An engaging, rich, and provocative work that re-directs 'mixed-race' studies back to its complex archival and historical roots, Manganelli’s book challenges readers to consider the deeply imbricated, transnational production of 19th century racial and gender mythologies."
Daphne Brooks
Princeton University
"Manganelli's clear, engaging writing will captivate readers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century British and American literature. This book provides ... Read more
Daphne Brooks
Princeton University
"Manganelli's clear, engaging writing will captivate readers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century British and American literature. This book provides ... Read more