The Coupling Convention by Ducille
Ann duCille's probing new study spanning the period from 1853 to 1948 explores the nascence of literary activity among black women in the 1890s 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 wider questions of human social relations, sexuality, and female subjectivity. The Coupling Convention goes beyond the period study to offer a new paradigm for reading black women's fiction.
To the extent to which du Cille wishes to privilege a number of neglected works, she puts forward vibrant new readings of more than a dozen novels...duCille is always careful to outline the critical heritage surrounding th novels and thereby allows her reader to proceed with an appropriate caveat. * American Studies vol 29 part 1 *
Ann duCille is Emerita Professor of English at Wesleyan University and author of Technicolored: Reflections on Race in the Time of TV, also published by Duke University Press; Skin Trade; and The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195085099 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195085094 |
| Title | The Coupling Convention |
| Author | Ducille |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1994-02-10 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
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