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1 online resource (ix, 204 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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Feminism and literature -- United States -- History.
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Feminism and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Feminist fiction, American. |
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African American women -- Intellectual life.
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African American women -- Intellectual life. |
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African American women. |
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Women and literature. |
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Man-woman relationships in literature.
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Man-woman relationships in literature. |
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African American women in literature.
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African American women in literature. |
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Marriage in literature.
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Marriage in literature. |
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Love in literature.
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Love in literature. |
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
| Indexed Term |
English fiction By Black women |
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United States |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: DuCille, Ann. Coupling convention. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 (DLC) 93019916 |
| ISBN |
1429407808 (electronic book) |
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9781429407809 (electronic book) |
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1280527021 |
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9781280527029 |
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9780195079722 (alkaline paper) |
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0195079728 (alkaline paper) |
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0195085094 (Paper) |
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9780195085099 |
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0195079728 (alkaline paper) |
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