Title The coupling convention : sex, text, and tradition in Black women's fiction / Ann duCille.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 204 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index.
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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.
Subject	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.
	African American women -- Intellectual life.
	Women and literature -- United States.
	Man-woman relationships in literature.
	African American women in literature.
	Marriage in literature.
	Love in literature.
	Sex in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	African American women in literature. (OCoLC)fst00799498
	African American women -- Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00799457
	American fiction -- African American authors. (OCoLC)fst00807049
	American fiction -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst00807099
	Feminism and literature. (OCoLC)fst00922735
	Feminist fiction, American. (OCoLC)fst00922769
	Love in literature. (OCoLC)fst01002808
	Man-woman relationships in literature. (OCoLC)fst01007097
	Marriage in literature. (OCoLC)fst01010607
	Sex in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114464
	Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Indexed Term	English fiction By Black women
	United States
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	Electronic books.
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: DuCille, Ann. Coupling convention. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 (DLC) 93019916
ISBN	1429407808 (electronic bk.)
	9781429407809 (electronic bk.)

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