Private Lives, Proper Relations Regulating Black Intimacy |
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Author:
| Jenkins, Candice M. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8166-4788-0 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2007 |
Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $28.99 |
Book Description:
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Private Lives, Proper Relations begins with the question of why contemporary African American literature--particularly that produced by black women--is continually concerned with issues of respectability and propriety. Candice M. Jenkins argues that this preoccupation has its origins in recurrent ideologies about African American sexuality, and that it expresses a fundamental aspect of the racial self--an often unarticulated link between the intimate and the political in black culture.
Private Lives, Proper Relations begins with the question of why contemporary African American literature--particularly that produced by black women--is continually concerned with issues of respectability and propriety. Candice M. Jenkins argues that this preoccupation has its origins in recurrent ideologies about African American sexuality, and that it expresses a fundamental aspect of the racial self--an often unarticulated link between the intimate and the political in black culture.