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The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction.
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 1890s; 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; A; B; C; D.
- EF; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.