Young Love: Model Minorities, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary South Asian YA Novels

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Publication year
2023
Pages
111–128
Comment

The introduction to the volume says that:

In Nalini Iyer's "Young Love: Model Minorities, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary South Asian YA Novels," she explores how contemporary young adult fiction about daughters of South Asian immigrants both contest and reinscribe their positions as model minorities. She engages with the work of several South Asian American writers whose works depict both the familial and romantic relationships of their young protagonists.

Via snippet view I was able to work out a bit more of the contents:

I examine the work of four South Asian American YA novelists: Sandhya Menon (primarily the novels in the Dimple and Rishi universe), Sabina Khan's The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali, Syed Masood's More Than Just a Pretty Face and Sabaa Tahir's All My Rage to explore how these authors deal with representation, particularly of daughters and in relation to young men/boys, within and beyond the South Asian community. (112-113)

[LV - Since I haven't read them or this article, I wasn't sure how many of these could be classified as romance novels so I had to guess from reading outlines of them elsewhere.]