Journal of the American Oriental Society

by American Oriental Society

1920

List of members in each volume.

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

by American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1917

Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell.

Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings ...

by American Institute of Instruction

1896

List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891.

The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction

by Ann duCille Associate Professor of English and African American Studies Wesleyan University

1993 · Oxford University Press, USA

What does the tradition of marriage mean for people who have historically been deprived of its legal status? Generally thought of as a convention of the white middle class, the marriage plot has received little attention from critics of African-American literature. In this study, Ann duCille uses texts such as Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) to demonstrate that the African-American novel, like its European and Anglo-American counterparts, has developed around the marriage plot--what she calls "the coupling convention." Exploring the relationship between racial ideology and literary and social conventions, duCille uses the coupling convention to trace the historical development of the African-American women's novel. She demonstrates the ways in which black women appropriated this novelistic device as a means of expressing and reclaiming their own identity. More than just a study of the marriage tradition in black women's fiction, however, The Coupling Convention takes up and takes on many different meanings of tradition. It challenges the notion of a single black literary tradition, or of a single black feminist literary canon grounded in specifically black female language and experience, as it explores the ways in which white and black, male and female, mainstream and marginalized "traditions" and canons have influenced and cross-fertilized each other. Much more than a period study, The Coupling Convention spans the period from 1853 to 1948, addressing the vital questions of gender, subjectivity, race, and the canon that inform literary study today. In this original work, duCille offers a new paradigm for reading black women's fiction.

Proceedings at the Semi-annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society

by American Oriental Society

1889

From the above it appears that a complete set of separate issues of the Proceedings, i.e. issues entirely independent of the Journal, comprises the following: Oct. 1852, May 1853, May 1858-May 1888 (except May 1860, which was issued only in the Journal)