The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction - Couverture rigide

DuCille, Ann

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195079728 ISBN 13 : 9780195079722

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Spanning the period 1853 to 1948, this study explores the nascence of literary activity among American black women and investigates 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 author attempts to go beyond the period study to offer a new paradigm for reading American black women's fiction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

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)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195079728
• ISBN 13: 9780195079722
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 215
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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