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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
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duCille, Ann. "Coupling and convention: Marriage, Sex, and Subjectivity in Novels by and about African American women, 1853-1948," Brown University, January 1991. Advisor: Mari Jo Buhle (1, 22, 12)
This study explores the relationship between literary convention and racial and sexual ideology. It traces the development of the African American woman’s novel against the backdrop of what is generally thought of as a white, middle class marriage tradition, paying particular attention to sociopolitical crises and modes of production. the project examines the subversives ways in which black women writers, from Harriet Wilson to Zora Neale Hurston, have used the “coupling convention” as a trope through which to explore not only the so-called larger questions of race and racism, but complex questions of sexuality and female subjectivity as well.
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