|
|
Black marriage revisited
- Article from:
-
Novel
- Article date:
-
April 1, 1996
- Author:
-
|
Copyright informationCopyright Novel, Inc. Spring 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
ANN DUCILLE, The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 204, cloth, $39.95, paper, $15.95.
What Ann duCille argues in The Coupling Convention is that from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1940s, African American writers, women in particular, appropriate the fictive marriage plot or "coupling convention" for the expressly political purposes of challenging patriarchal ideology, claiming political freedom, and asserting female authority. In lucid and provocative readings of black women's novels from Francis Harper to Zora Neale Hurston, duCille delineates the ways in which these texts interact with and critique ...