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The coupling convention :

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The coupling convention :

[Book]

sex, text, and tradition in Black women's fiction /

Ann duCille.

New York :

Oxford University Press,

1993.

1 online resource (ix, 204 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index.

Conventional criticism and unconventional Black literature -- The coupling convention: novel views of love and marriage -- Literary passionlessness and the Black woman question in the 1890s -- Women, men, and marriage in the ideal estate -- Blues notes on Black sexuality: sex and the texts of the Twenties and Thirties -- The bourgeois, wedding bell blues of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen -- Stoning the romance: passion, patriarchy, and the modern marriage plot -- Conclusion: marriage, tradition, and the individualized talent.

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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 as diverse as William Well Brown's Clotel (1853) and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) to demonstrate that the African-American novel, like its European and Amglo-American counterparts, has developed around the marriage plot-what she calls "the coupling convention." Exploring the relationship between racial ideology and literary and social conventions, duCille uses the coupling convention to trace the historical development of the African-American women's novel. More than just a study of the marriage tradition in black women's fiction, however, The Coupling Convention takes up and takes on many different meanings of tradition. It challenges the very notion of a single black literary tradition, or of a single black feminist literary canon grounded in specifically black female language and experience, as it explores the ways in which white and black, male and female, mainstream and marginalized "traditions" and canons have influenced and cross-fertilized each other.

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Coupling convention.

African American women in literature.

African American women-- Intellectual life.

American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism.

American fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.

Feminism and literature-- United States-- History.

Feminist fiction, American-- History and criticism.

Love in literature.

Man-woman relationships in literature.

Marriage in literature.

Sex in literature.

Women and literature-- United States.

Amour dans la littérature.

Écrits de femmes américains-- Histoire et critique.

Femmes et littérature-- États-Unis-- Histoire.

Littérature féministe-- États-Unis-- Histoire et critique.

Mariage dans la littérature.

Noires américaines dans la littérature.

Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature.

Roman américain-- Auteurs noirs américains-- Histoire et critique.

Sexualité dans la littérature.

African American women in literature.

African American women-- Intellectual life.

American fiction-- African American authors.

American fiction-- Women authors.

American Literature.

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English.

Feminism and literature.

Feminist fiction, American.

Frauenroman

Languages & Literatures.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

Love in literature.

Man-woman relationships in literature.

Mariage-- Dans la littérature.

Marriage in literature.

Noires américaines-- Dans la littérature.

Roman américain-- Femmes écrivains noires américaines-- Histoire et critique.

Roman américain-- Histoire et critique.

Schwarze

Sex in literature.

Women and literature.

Schwarze.

United States.

USA.

USA.

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CSBF

LIT-- 004020

DuCille, Ann.

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