The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction
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What does the tradition of marriage mean for people who have historically been deprived of its legal status? Generally thought of as a convention of the white middle class, the marriage plot has received little attention from critics of African-American literature. In this study, Ann duCille uses texts such as Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) to demonstrate that the African-American novel,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195085094
ISBN13:9780195085099
Release Date:November 1993
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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