Private Lives, Proper Relations Regulating Black Intimacy |
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| Author:
| Jenkins, Candice M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-4787-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2007 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $67.50 |
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.