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The tragic mulatta was a stock figure in nineteenth-century American literature, an attractive mixed-race woman who became a casualty of the color line. The tragic muse was an equally familiar figure in Victorian British culture, an exotic and alluring Jewish actress whose profession placed her alongside the "fallen woman." In Transatlantic Spectacles of Race, Kimberly Manganelli argues that the tragic mulatta and tragic muse, who have heretofore been read separately, must be understood as two sides of the same phenomenon. In both cases, the eroticized and racialized female body is put on public display, as a highly enticing commodity in the nineteenth-century marketplace. Tracing these figures through American, British, and French literature and culture, Manganelli constructs a host of surprising literary genealogies, from Zelica to Daniel Deronda, from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Lady Audley's Secret. Bringing together an impressive array of cultural texts that includes novels, melodramas, travel narratives, diaries, and illustrations, Transatlantic Spectacles of Race reveals the value of transcending literary, national, and racial boundaries.
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Beautiful Jewesses have been among the stock figures featuring in literature in German for centuries. The present study is the first consistent attempt to typify the figure of the 'beautiful Jewess' by examining 70 novels and shorter narratives from four centuries. The 'beautiful Jewess' topos is the expression of a non-Jewish and non-female view, i.e. a view from the outside. The correspondingly stereotyped features of the literary image of the Jewess are traceable from Grimmelshausen to Heinrich Mann. In the history of this motif, we also find a reflection of the problematic nature of Jewish emancipation and assimilation in the course of time. Reference to public discourse on Jewish women and their role in state and society permits a reconstruction of the foundations underlying contemporary attitudes and collective opinion-forming mechanisms determining the image of the Jewess in literary works and the reception accorded to such figures. Schöne jüdische Frauengestalten gehören über Jahrhunderte hinweg zum Figurenarsenal der deutschsprachigen Literatur. An siebzig Romanen und Erzählungen aus vier Jahrhunderten wird hier erstmals im Zusammenhang der literarische Typus der 'Schönen Jüdin' dargestellt. Der sprachliche Topos 'Die Schöne Jüdin' ist Ausdruck einer (nichtjüdischen und nichtweiblichen) Außensicht; die entsprechend stereotypen Züge des literarischen Bilds der Jüdin lassen sich von Grimmelshausen bis Heinrich Mann nachweisen. In der Motivgeschichte spiegelt sich zugleich der problematische Verlauf der jüdischen Emanzipations- und Assimilationsgeschichte. Ausblicke auf den öffentlichen Diskurs über jüdische Frauen und ihre Rolle in Staat und Gesellschaft ermöglichen die Rekonstruktion der zeitgenössischen Verständnisvoraussetzungen und kollektiven Urteilsmechanismen, die die literarische Gestaltung jüdischer Frauenfiguren und ihre Rezeption bestimmen.
German literature --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- Short stories, German --- Jewish women in literature. --- Jews in literature. --- Nouvelles allemandes --- Juifs dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- 830-3 "16/19" --- -Women, Jewish, in literature --- Jews in literature --- Jewish women in literature --- Women, Jewish, in literature --- German short stories --- German fiction --- Duitse literatuur: proza--?"16/19" --- History and criticism --- 830-3 "16/19" Duitse literatuur: proza--?"16/19" --- Juifs dans la littérature
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