ALI books

• Manganelli, Kimberly. The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse: Transatlantic Spectacles of Race.
  
  (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press, 2010).
  
  Manganelli brings together two crucial literary types from opposite sides of the Atlantic, the mixed-race slave in American literature and the Jewish actress in British literature. In studying the movement of textual bodies produced through cultural exchange, Mangenelli navigates a space that in the nineteenth century imaginary and, until recently in literary studies, has been viewed as a barrier between American and British cultures. Opening up a traditionally neglected dialogue between these two figures, women historically confined to separate literary histories, the author examines how these literatures create and disseminate racial concepts across cultures.