The book had not yet been published when this entry was created, so information is incomplete and may be inaccurate.
Here's the abstract:
This chapter critically examines post-millennial romance fiction in India, analysing its themes, authors, and socio-cultural implications. Drawing from a diverse pool of literary works, including mainstream and queer romance, it investigates the genre’s evolution within the Indian literary landscape. This chapter highlights the contributions of prominent authors such as Chetan Bhagat, Durjoy Datta, and Anuja Chauhan as well as queer narratives by authors such as Niladri Chatterjee, Raj Rao, and Sandhya Menon to showcase the diversity of voices shaping contemporary romance narratives. Through conceptual lenses informed by fields such as privilege studies, this chapter interrogates the perception of romance as catering to consumerist or bourgeois classes, revealing aspects such as class dynamics within the genre’s audience that illuminate twenty-first-century India’s systemic privileges. Further, this chapter investigates the predominance of male authorship and its tendency to appropriate the voices of marginalized genders, perpetuating cisheteronormative and ethnonationalistic narratives. Additionally, it explores how consumerism and the culture industry contribute to commodifying bodies and identities within romantic storytelling. While acknowledging the scope and limitations of such a study, this chapter examines how post-millennial romance fiction reflects and influences societal attitudes towards love, gender, and class in contemporary India.
Since the book has not yet been published, I'm unsure how many of the works discussed will be romances as defined in this database. However, the introduction to the volume gives some more details:
Her chapter offers an insightful overview of consumerism and class dynamics before critically reviewing Ravinder Singh's Can Love Happen Twice? (2011); Anuja Chauhan's The Zoya Factor (2008); Raj Rao's The Boyfriend (2003); Niladri R. Chatterjee's The Scholar (2022) and with a focus on the commodification of bodies and identities through consumerism and the culture industry, she examines Anisha Bhatia's The Rules of Arrangement (2021) and Andaleeb Wajid's Accidentally Married (2021).
The book had not yet been published when this entry was created, so information is incomplete and may be inaccurate.
Here's the abstract:
Since the book has not yet been published, I'm unsure how many of the works discussed will be romances as defined in this database. However, the introduction to the volume gives some more details: