The coupling convention : sex, text, and tradition in Black women's fiction
Record details
- ISBN: 0195079728
- ISBN: 9780195079722
- ISBN: 9781280527029
- ISBN: 1280527021
- ISBN: 9781429407809
- ISBN: 1429407808
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 204 pages)
remote - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Conventional criticism and unconventional Black literature -- The coupling convention: novel views of love and marriage -- Literary passionlessness and the Black woman question in the 1890s -- Women, men, and marriage in the ideal estate -- Blues notes on Black sexuality: sex and the texts of the Twenties and Thirties -- The bourgeois, wedding bell blues of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen -- Stoning the romance: passion, patriarchy, and the modern marriage plot -- Conclusion: marriage, tradition, and the individualized talent. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. |