From the Introduction: "Layla Abdullah-Poulos introduces the world of African American Muslim romance novels as a site for understanding tensions around pleasure, intimacy, and polygyny" (8).
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Despite prevailing Eurocentric ideals in US/American popular culture about love and relationships, distinctions exist across social groups. A growing number of American Muslim authors use romance fiction to explore layers of eros and offer readers access to some of the intimate mechanisms that exist within the subculture. (205)
From the Introduction: "Layla Abdullah-Poulos introduces the world of African American Muslim romance novels as a site for understanding tensions around pleasure, intimacy, and polygyny" (8).
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