{"product_id":"the-tragic-mulatta-revisited-eve-raimon-9780813534824","title":"The 'Tragic Mulatta' Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince its inception, the United States has been intensely preoccupied with interracialism. The concept is embedded everywhere in our social and political fabric, including our sense of national identity. And yet, in both its quantitative and symbolic forms, interracialism remains an extremely elusive phenomenon, causing policy makers and census boards to wrangle over how to delineate it and, on an emblematic level, stirring intense emotions from fear to fascination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe \"Tragic Mulatta\" Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e, Eve Allegra Raimon focuses on the mixed-race female slave in literature, arguing that this figure became a symbolic vehicle for explorations of race and nation--both of which were in crisis in the mid-nineteenth century. At this time, judicial, statutory, social, and scientific debates about the meaning of racial difference (and intermixture) coincided with disputes over frontier expansion, which were never merely about land acquisition but also literally about the \"complexion\" of that frontier. Embodying both northern and southern ideologies, the \"amalgamated\" mulatta, the author argues, can be viewed as quintessentially American, a precursor to contemporary motifs of \"hybrid\" and \"mestizo\" identities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere others have focused on the gendered and racially abject position of the \"tragic mulatta,\" Raimon\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ereconsiders texts by such central antislavery writers as Lydia Maria Child, William Wells Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Wilson to suggest that the figure is more usefully examined as a way of understanding the volatile and shifting interface of race and national identity in the antebellum period.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eve Raimon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813534828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813534824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.68w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2005 pg. 1401","brand":"Eve Raimon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059826913535,"sku":"9780813534824","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_322b4f9e-dc17-429b-a02e-6f093e92fef1.jpg?v=1685060555","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tragic-mulatta-revisited-eve-raimon-9780813534824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}