ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler's drama Die Mohrinn, (The Mooress) which effectively depicts the shifts in the traditional bourgeois conflict when the main focus is not the white bourgeois daughter, but the black female, a former slave, who finds herself an inhabitor of white space. In the drama, Joni, as the black heroine, has, a variety of meanings within the white bourgeois family context. Aside from the obvious and overt roles of Joni, she also functions as covert double and foil of the white characters: she is a double for the traditional "fallen woman" (Marwood) and of the traditional "male seducer" (Mellefont) as well as "seductress" of the passive white male Georg; she is the aesthetic foil of the white female (Aurelie) as well as the patriarchal foil, embodied as a racial and sexual threat and rival to the father (Lord Fleetwell), the representative of the white social order.
