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The coupling convention : sex, text, and tradition in Black women's fiction / / Ann duCille



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Autore: DuCille Ann Visualizza persona
Titolo: The coupling convention : sex, text, and tradition in Black women's fiction / / Ann duCille Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/9287/08996
813.409
Soggetto topico: American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
Feminism and literature - United States - History
Women and literature - United States - History
Man-woman relationships in literature
African American women in literature
Marriage in literature
Love in literature
Sex in literature
Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1993.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction: Conventional Criticism and Unconventional Black Literature; 1. The Coupling Convention: Novel Views of Love and Marriage; 2. Literary Passionlessness and the Black Woman Question in the 1890's; 3. Women, Men, and Marriage in the Ideal Estate; 4. Blues Notes on Black Sexuality: Sex and the Texts of the Twenties and Thirties; 5. The Bourgeois, Wedding Bell Blues of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen; 6. Stoning the Romance: Passion, Patriarchy, and the Modern Marriage Plot; Conclusion: Marriage, Tradition, and the Individualized Talent; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Sommario/riassunto: Spanning the period 1853 to 1948, this study explores the nascence of literary activity among American black women and goes on to investigate the cultural climate which led some of the most prominent to use the marriage convention as a means of exploring questions of sexuality and relationships.
Titolo autorizzato: The Coupling Convention  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-772357-8
1-280-52702-1
0-19-535911-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817305903321
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.