I've given the English version of the title, since the article itself is in English, but there is a Spanish version of the title and abstract. Here's the English version of the abstract:
Urban fantasy heroines tend to be highly trained supernatural or magical beings who unapologetically use violence to achieve their goals. Their stories, often plotted as revenge narratives, are in many cases driven by anger, a key force of good in the quest for justice. Heroines are transformed into protectors when their personal trajectories, often motivated by complicated family bonds, become entangled with the fate of specific cities. Rereading Jaye Wells’ Sabina Kane series in the context of recent feminist reinterpretations of women’s anger, I will argue that anger is a source of social responsibility, thus resolving the apparent contradiction between caring and violence, and can become a legitimate affect in romance fiction. I will explain how, in Wells series, the female questor achieves the transition from lone wolf to caring warrior without sacrificing her capacity to expertly wield extreme violence or deny her rage.
---
I will argue, in the context of the “anger turn”(Wallaert, 2019: 10), that in popular romance fiction anger may motivate a sense of social responsibility and desire for political change, thus resolving the apparent contradiction between the desirability of a caring community implicit in the happy ending and the physical and verbal expression of anger, which is culturally deemed unfeminine, pathological, unwarranted, uncivil and destructive. (22)
---
Not all critics agree about the role that the city must play in UF, whether it be as a backdrop or a central character, but Sabina Kane is unimaginable in any other environment, because the grittiness of the city and her disenchanted worldview as well as her aggressiveness are incompatible with any other landscape. (30)
---
The questions that initially prompted this essay were whether anger has a role to play in the range of emotions explored in popular romance fiction and how female heroes who are both violent and caring, challenge figurations of gender in popular romance fiction by overcoming false dichotomies. These questions are crucial if we think of popular romance novels as affective technologies that explore, complicate and shape feelings and emotional states (Golubov, 2022). (35)
I've given the English version of the title, since the article itself is in English, but there is a Spanish version of the title and abstract. Here's the English version of the abstract:
---
---
---