Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Kimberly S. Manganellia
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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 nineteenth-century marketplace.
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The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 37, Issue 2 (June 2009) pages 501-522 DOI: 10.1017/S1060150309090317 Kimberly Snyder Manganellia, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century British and American Literature Clemson University Marie Lavington, the runaway octoroon slave in Charles Kingsley‘s little-read novel Two Years Ago (1857), makes this declaration of independence in…