{"id":42411,"date":"2015-08-26T23:12:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T23:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42411"},"modified":"2016-03-20T21:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T21:13:05","slug":"moor-mulata-mulatta-sentimentalism-racialization-and-benevolent-imperialism-in-mary-peabody-manns-juanita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42411","title":{"rendered":"Moor, Mulata, Mulatta: Sentimentalism, Racialization, and Benevolent Imperialism in Mary Peabody Mann\u2019s Juanita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/jnc.2014.0021\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Moor, <\/strong><\/em><strong>Mulata<\/strong><em><strong>, Mulatta: Sentimentalism, Racialization, and Benevolent Imperialism in Mary Peabody Mann\u2019s Juanita<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/the_journal_of_nineteenth_century_americanists\" target=\"_blank\">J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/the_journal_of_nineteenth_century_americanists\/toc\/jnc.2.2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2014<\/a><br \/>\npages 301-329<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/jnc.2014.0021\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/jnc.2014.0021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.colorado.edu\/maria-windell-assistant-professor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maria A. Windell<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of Colorado, Boulder<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoor, <em>Mulata<\/em>, Mulatta\u201d argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Tyler_Peabody_Mann\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Peabody Mann\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/juanitaromanceof00mannuoft\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Juanita<\/em><\/a> (1887) imports <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abolitionism_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. sentimental abolitionism<\/a> to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuba\" target=\"_blank\">Cuban<\/a> setting. In so doing, it imports a racial hierarchy divergent from that developing in Cuba. By translating figures such as Eva-like children and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\">tragic U.S. mulatta<\/a> into a Cuban narrative, Mann\u2019s novel overwrites figures such as the Cuban <em>mulata<\/em> and rewrites Cuba\u2019s antislavery and anticolonial movements\u2014erasing their multiracial nature. The alternate Cuba that <em>Juanita<\/em> envisions exemplifies a late-nineteenth-century U.S. hemispheric imaginary, thereby prefiguring U.S. influence in Cuba following the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuban_War_of_Independence\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish-Cuban-American War<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moor, Mulata, Mulatta: Sentimentalism, Racialization, and Benevolent Imperialism in Mary Peabody Mann\u2019s Juanita J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2014 pages 301-329 DOI: 10.1353\/jnc.2014.0021 Maria A. Windell, Assistant Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder \u201cMoor, Mulata, Mulatta\u201d argues that Mary Peabody Mann\u2019s Juanita (1887) imports U.S. sentimental abolitionism to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,1196,8,20],"tags":[673,19969,20830,20825,20826,20828,20827,20829],"class_list":["post-42411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-cuba","tag-j19-the-journal-of-nineteenth-century-americanists","tag-journal-of-nineteenth-century-americanists","tag-maria-a-windell","tag-maria-windell","tag-mary-mann","tag-mary-peabody-mann","tag-the-journal-of-nineteenth-century-americanists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42411","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=42411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42413,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42411\/revisions\/42413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}