{"id":64021,"date":"2022-10-03T18:51:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=64021"},"modified":"2022-10-03T18:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T18:51:57","slug":"chapter-8-theresa-and-the-early-transatlantic-mixed-race-heroine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64021","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 8 – \u201cTheresa\u201d and the Early Transatlantic Mixed-Race Heroine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 8 – \u201cTheresa\u201d and the Early Transatlantic Mixed-Race Heroine<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter in: African American Literature in Transition, 1800\u20131830<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
\nCambridge University Press
\nMarch 2021
\nDOI: 10.1017\/9781108632003.014<\/a>
\npages 202-226<\/p>\n

Brigitte Fielder<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of U.S. Literature
\nUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This chapter examines the publication of \u201cTheresa\u201d in Freedom\u2019s Journal<\/em><\/a>, a short story about women\u2019s wartime heroism into the broader history of the Haitian Revolution<\/a>. \u201cTheresa\u201d paints an image of mixed-race womanhood that was not insignificant for both this American venue and for a larger transatlantic context. Like the anonymously written British epistolary<\/a> novel, The Woman of Colour, A Tale<\/em> (1808), \u201cTheresa\u201d shows mixed-race women who are aligned with Black racial uplift rather than white assimilation. Moreover, both of these texts present images of mixed-race heroines who differ significantly from those of the \u201ctragic mulatta<\/a>\u201d genre that would gain popularity during the antebellum period<\/a>. Instead, \u201cTheresa\u201d frames its mixed-race heroines as models not only of racial solidarity but also of radical abolitionist action. In this, \u201cTheresa\u201d anticipates postbellum mixed-race heroines, through foregoing mixed-race women\u2019s heterosexual union with Black men with their political action alongside them. The chapter offers an analysis of early nineteenth-century texts such as Laura Sansay\u2019s<\/a> Secret History; or, the Horrors of St. Domingo<\/em> (1808) and Zelica the Creole<\/em> (1820), which make the safety of white women the priority of their mixed-race characters.<\/p>\n

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This chapter examines the publication of \u201cTheresa\u201d in Freedom\u2019s Journal, a short story about women\u2019s wartime heroism into the broader history of the Haitian Revolution. \u201cTheresa\u201d paints an image of mixed-race womanhood that was not insignificant for both this American venue and for a larger transatlantic context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1933,1196,8,20,25],"tags":[19964,1956,33663,33662],"class_list":["post-64021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-bookchapter","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-brigitte-fielder","tag-cambridge-university-press","tag-freedoms-journal","tag-laura-sansay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64021","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=64021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64022,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64021\/revisions\/64022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}