# Private Lives, Proper Relations, Vol. 1

By **Candice M Jenkins**

- ISBN-13: 9780816647880
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- Published: 12 Jun 2007

## About this book

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

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