Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other

Publisher
Lexington
Location
Lanham, Maryland
Publication year
2020
Comment

The bibliography's focused on romance fiction, so I've left out two essays from this volume. However, as I'm one of the co-editors, I feel they're worth reading, so I'm going to put details here.

Maureen Mulligan, "Cross-Cultural Romance and the Shadow of the Sheikh", which is about two travel memoirs. These non-fiction accounts do, however, seem to be drawing on captivity narratives of the kind one can find in E. M. Hull's The Sheik.

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, "Archipelagoes of Romance: Decapitalized Otherness in Caribbean Trash Fiction", about narratives which don't have a central romance/end in violence, death and/or madness.

Javaria Farooqui has reviewed the volume for the Journal of Popular Romance Studies.

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