See the second chapter, "Urban Romantica: Making Black and Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities." Here's the description of it which appears at the beginning of its first paragraph:
This chapter asks, What can a romance novel teach us about being black and Caribbean in diaspora? Can this literary genre offer insight into the process of becoming loved and loveable as a black and Jamaican person? What can a romance novel contribute to extraliterary discourses of blackness and ethnicity? I tackle these questions by putting Waiting in Vain's form - "urban romantica" (shorthand for an erotic and urban romance novel) - in conversation with its content. Reading Channer's 1998 novel as urban romantica and mining its Amazon.com reviews for descriptions of how the novel was read and received support this philosophical intervention.
See the second chapter, "Urban Romantica: Making Black and Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities." Here's the description of it which appears at the beginning of its first paragraph:
Frederick also wrote about this novel in a paper published in 2013.