Although the date given inside the book is 2025, it was published in late 2024. However, I'm using the 2025 date since it's the one Bloomsbury are using in print.
Here's the abstract:
Romance Fandom in 21st-century Pakistan offers the first major study of Anglophone romance fandom in South Asia, providing a new reader-centric model that engages with romance readers as genre experts.
Javaria Farooqui inspects the popular Anglophone romance reading community in Pakistan and develops a model for analysing genre romance novels through the lens of the readers’ perspective and preferences. Using focus-group interviews and close textual analysis, Romance Fandom in 21st-century Pakistan explores where and how readers access books of their choice, and explains why the detailed descriptions of dresses, food and spaces in historical romance novels of the Regency era exemplify good taste for this distinctive readership. Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, and fan studies, this book considers the reception of Anglophone romance fiction by reading communities of colour.
Although the date given inside the book is 2025, it was published in late 2024. However, I'm using the 2025 date since it's the one Bloomsbury are using in print.
Here's the abstract: