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Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature (American Literatures Initiative)
Susana M. Morris
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Hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
The ""black family"" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called forth an emphasis on conventional respectability if stability and social approval are to be achieved. Looking at the ways in which contemporary African American and black Caribbean women writers conceptualize the black family, Susana Morris finds a discernible tradition that challenges the politics of respectability by arguing that it obfuscates the ... Read more
The ""black family"" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called forth an emphasis on conventional respectability if stability and social approval are to be achieved. Looking at the ways in which contemporary African American and black Caribbean women writers conceptualize the black family, Susana Morris finds a discernible tradition that challenges the politics of respectability by arguing that it obfuscates the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
American Literatures Initiative
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813935492
SKU
V9780813935492
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About Susana M. Morris
Susana M. Morris is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, USA.
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