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![The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction by Ann Ducille](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBM3ZIL2c9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--87212def565ac2f957e4bef171f76445850f1fc1/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Coupling%20Convention-%20Sex,%20Text,%20and%20Tradition%20in%20Black%20Women's%20Fiction.jpg)
216 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195085099
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 25 November 1993
Description
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-Am...
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![The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction by Ann Ducille](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBM3ZIL2c9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--87212def565ac2f957e4bef171f76445850f1fc1/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Coupling%20Convention-%20Sex,%20Text,%20and%20Tradition%20in%20Black%20Women's%20Fiction.jpg)
216 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195085099
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 25 November 1993
Description
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-Am...