{"id":316,"date":"2009-08-15T03:53:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T03:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=316"},"modified":"2012-02-13T21:13:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T21:13:02","slug":"the-tragic-mulatta-plays-the-tragic-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S1060150309090317\" target=\"_blank\">The Tragic Mulatta Plays the Tragic Muse<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayJournal?jid=VLC\" target=\"_blank\">Victorian Literature and Culture<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayIssue?jid=VLC&amp;volumeId=37&amp;seriesId=0&amp;issueId=02\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 37, Issue 2<\/a> (June 2009)<br \/>\npages 501-522<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S1060150309090317\" target=\"_blank\">10.1017\/S1060150309090317<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto: kmangan@clemson.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Kimberly Snyder Manganellia<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of 19th-Century British and American Literature<br \/>\n<em>Clemson University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Marie Lavington, the runaway <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1146\" target=\"_blank\">octoroon<\/a> slave in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Kingsley\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Kingsley<\/a>&#8216;s little-read novel <em>Two Years Ago<\/em> (1857), makes this declaration of independence in a letter to Tom Thurnall, the novel&#8217;s hero. Though Tom helped her escape to a Canadian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quaker\" target=\"_blank\">Quaker<\/a> community, Marie has tired of the \u201cstaid and sober\u201d (122; vol. 1, ch. 5) lifestyle of a Quakeress.\u00a0 She reenters the public marketplace by refashioning herself into the Italian diva, La Cordifiamma. \u00a0<strong>Marie&#8217;s ascent to the stage as La Cordifiamma marks the construction of a new female body in the mid-nineteenth century: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\">Tragic Mulatta<\/a> who becomes a Tragic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muse\" target=\"_blank\">Muse<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=6033892#\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8216;s little-read novel Two Years Ago (1857), makes this declaration of independence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,1196,8,25],"tags":[1589,5021,5020,443,213,79,444],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-charles-kingsley","tag-kimberly-manganellia","tag-kimberly-s-manganellia","tag-kimberly-snyder-manganellia","tag-mulatta","tag-tragic-mulatto","tag-victorian-literature-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}