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Paperback Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse Book

ISBN: 0813549884

ISBN13: 9780813549880

Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse

(Part of the The American Literatures Initiative Series)

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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...

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