{"id":4528,"date":"2010-01-13T02:58:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2010-09-22T18:19:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T18:19:01","slug":"the-mulatta-as-a-dominant-fictional-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4528","title":{"rendered":"The Mulatta as a Dominant Fictional Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatta<\/a> emerged as a dominant fictional character and as a frequent subject for painters, photographers, and filmmakers not simply because she was as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/wgss\/faculty\/carby-h.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hazel Carby<\/a>\u00a0deems her, \u201ca narrative device of mediation\u201d.\u00a0 Far from resolving issues of race, class, and gender, the ambivalence of the mulatta figure fascinated writers and readers, artists and audiences.\u00a0 The mulatta as icon, then became a representative of unspeakable subjugation and erotic desire, both inter- and intraracial.\u00a0 Styled as the ideal\u00a0template for measuring black femininity, she was, by turns, a constrained symbol of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victorian_era\" target=\"_blank\">Victorian<\/a> womanhood, a seductive temptress, and a deceptive, independent, modern woman.\u00a0 Visual and fictional portraits of the mulatta attempted to balance and conjure these interpretations simultaneously, but only by tracing the dialogue between visual and fictional renderings can we comprehend the collaborative and experimental nature of these artistic endeavors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Cherene Sherrard-Johnson<\/strong>. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=1089\" target=\"_blank\">Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 New Jersey: <a href=\"http:\/\/rutgerspress.rutgers.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rutgers University Press<\/a>. 2006. Pages xix-xx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mulatta emerged as a dominant fictional character and as a frequent subject for painters, photographers, and filmmakers not simply because she was as Hazel Carby\u00a0deems her, \u201ca narrative device of mediation\u201d.\u00a0 Far from resolving issues of race, class, and gender, the ambivalence of the mulatta figure fascinated writers and readers, artists and audiences.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1196,8,25],"tags":[970],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-hazel-carby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","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=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}