Private lives, proper relations
Subtitle: regulating black intimacy
By: Candice M. Jenkins.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780816647873; 9780816647880
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans in literature; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Sex in literature; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: vulnerable subjects; title: Domestic oversights; title: Pathological women; title: Queering Black patriarchy; title: Intimate borders; title: Doing violence to desire.