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

by Ann DuCille

Book Overview

What does the tradition of marriage mean for people who have historically been deprived of its legal status? 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 such as Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) to demonstrate that the African-American novel,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195085094
• ISBN13: 9780195085099
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"