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6%OFFCandice M. Jenkins - Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy - 9780816647880 - V9780816647880
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Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy

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Description for Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.

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.

 

In a counterpoint to her paradigmatic reading of Nella Larsen’s Passing, Jenkins’s analysis of black women’s narratives—including Ann Petry’s The Street, Toni Morrison’s Sula and Paradise, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, and Gayl Jones’s ... Read more

 

Scholars of African American culture acknowledge that intimacy and sexuality are taboo subjects among African Americans precisely because black intimate character has been pathologized. Private Lives, Proper Relations is a powerful contribution to the crucial effort to end the distortion still surrounding black intimacy in the United States.

 

Candice M. Jenkins is associate professor of English at Hunter College, City University o

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816647880
SKU
V9780816647880
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