The "tragic mulatta" revisited : race and nationalism in nineteenth-century antislavery fiction / / Eve Allegra Raimon |
Autore | Raimon Eve Allegra <1957-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 202 p |
Disciplina | 813/.3093522 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Race in literature Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 19th century African American women in literature Antislavery movements in literature Multiracial women in literature Tragic, The, in literature Nationalism in literature Slavery in literature Women in literature |
ISBN |
0-8135-5989-8
0-8135-3711-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading Miscegenation -- Chapter 1: Of Romances and Republics in Lydia Maria Child's Miscegenation Fiction -- Chapter 2: Revising the "Quadroon Narrative" in William Wells Brown's Clotel -- Chapter 3: Resistant Cassys in Richard Hildreth's The Slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Chapter 4: Public Poor Relief and National Belonging in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig -- Coda: The "Tragic Mulatta" Then and Now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821226303321 |
Raimon Eve Allegra <1957-> | ||
New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Transatlantic spectacles of race : the tragic mulatta and the tragic muse / / Kimberly Snyder Manganelli |
Autore | Manganelli Kimberly Snyder |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 809/.933522 |
Collana | The American Literatures Initiative |
Soggetto topico |
Multiracial women in literature
Tragic, The, in literature Race in literature Jewish women in literature |
ISBN |
1-283-59207-X
9786613904522 0-8135-4991-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "I Thought That to Seem Was to Be": Spectacles of Race in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Imaginary -- 1. "Stamped and Molded by Pleasure": The Transnational Mulatta in Jamaica and Saint-Domingue -- 2. "Fascinating Allurements of Gold": New Orleans's "Copper-Colored Nymphs" and the Tragic Mulatta -- 3. "Oh Heavens! What Am I?": The Tragic Mulatta as Sensation Heroine -- 4. "I Wonder What Market He Means That Daughter For": The Beautiful Jewess and the Tragic Muse -- 5. "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" -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826848803321 |
Manganelli Kimberly Snyder | ||
New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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