ENGLISH 2H06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tragic Mulatto, Edgar Allen, Anagram
3 Feb 2017
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Novel of manners (what this book is called) To help people cope with socioeconomic changes (economy, industrialization, social hierarchies, etc. ) To reinforce or uphold certain mores and values of society (like mothering, marriage, separation of the classes, etc. ) at a time when the masses were becoming disoriented (ex. Risks of not fitting into the social hierarchy, of falling into the space in-between social positions/ classes. * the concept of the (cid:498)tragic mulatto(cid:499) is an inherently racist term because. Quicksand/ passing: suggestive of a swallowing up of individuality-> death (cid:523)(cid:494)passing(cid:495) and (cid:494)quicksand(cid:495)) The (cid:498)tragic mulatto(cid:499) character usually just dies and disappears. Interracial marriages were not (cid:498)accepted(cid:499) until the (cid:883)9(cid:888)(cid:882)(cid:495)s is pretending to be something she isn(cid:495)t-> she has to hide her blackness. She is pinned down and pigeon holed by society(cid:495)s idea of her. It is from an interracial woman (father is from west indies and mother is danish)
