"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…
Author: Candice M. Jenkins · Original publisher: University of Minnesota Press (2007)
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