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

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: “I Thought That to Seem Was to Be”: Spectacles of Race in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Imaginary 1 1 “Stamped and Molded by Pleasure”: The Transnational Mulatta in Jamaica and Saint-Domingue 17 2 “Fascinating Allurements of Gold”: New Orleans’s “Copper-Colored Nymphs” and the Tragic Mulatta 37 3 “Oh Heavens! What Am I?”: The Tragic Mulatta as Sensation Heroine 65 4 “I Wonder What Market He Means That Daughter For”: The Beautiful Jewess and the Tragic Muse 92 5 “After All, Living Is but to Play a Part”: The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse 128 Conclusion: “I Know What I Am”: Race and the Triumphant “New Woman” 159 Notes 189 Index 219 ...