This is the introduction to a special issue on "YA / Series / Romance": "Rather than presenting YA series romance as a unified category, this special issue considers it as a site of continuous negotiation."
genre is a complex amalgam of three different components—young adult literature, serialization, and popular romance—each of which possesses its own ambiguities and contradictions. For this reason, we use the slashes in the title of this special issue—“YA / Series / Romance”—as typographic markers to highlight how the contradictions amongst the three components contribute to the genre’s definitional instability.
Most of the articles are about texts which fall more on the series side and/or are about forms of YA other than novels.
This is the introduction to a special issue on "YA / Series / Romance": "Rather than presenting YA series romance as a unified category, this special issue considers it as a site of continuous negotiation."
I've only included one of the other articles in this special issue, Christian M. Hines's "Main Character Energy: Black Girls Getting the Love They Deserve in Elise Bryant’s Young Adult Novels", since this database is focused on scholarship about popular romance novels and the YA / Series / Romance
Most of the articles are about texts which fall more on the series side and/or are about forms of YA other than novels.