How Long to Read The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction

How Long Does it Take to Read The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 43 minutes to read 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

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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...

How long is The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction?

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 is 222 pages long, and a total of 55,944 words.

This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 5 minutes to read The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction aloud.

What Reading Level is The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction?

The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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