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

Informationen zum Autor Edited by María Ramos-García and Laura Vivanco - Contributions by Aline Maria Pinguinha França Bazenga; María Isabel González-Cruz; Johanna Hoorenman; Maureen Mulligan; Inmaculada Pérez-Casal; María del Mar Pérez-Gil; María Ramos-García; Ramón E. Soto-Cre Klappentext This book analyzes representations of otherness in a variety of romantic Anglophone texts from the 1950s to the 2010s using an array of approaches. Together, contributors suggest a trajectory of increasing openness to diversity, but also the many ways in which popular fiction continues to fall short, perpetuating old tropes and stereotypes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: María Ramos-García and Laura Vivanco Part I: Place, Travel, History and Language Chapter 1: Britannia's Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s-1970s) María del Mar Pérez-Gil Chapter 2: 'And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road': The Anglo-centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955-1987) María Jesús Vera-Cazorla Chapter 3: Cross-Cultural Romance and the Shadow of the Sheikh Maureen Mulligan Chapter 4: Othering and Language: Bilingual Romances in the Canary Islands María Isabel González-Cruz Chapter 5:Language Awareness in Four Romances Set on the Island of Madeira Aline Bazenga Chapter 6: Archipelagoes of Romance: Decapitalized Otherness in Caribbean Trash Fiction Ramón Soto-Crespo Part II: Tensions and Transformations Chapter 7: Public Conflicts and Private Treaties in Kathleen Eagle's Native American Themed Romance Fiction Johanna Hoorenman Chapter 8: Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook's Riveted (2012) and its Context Laura Vivanco Chapter 9: Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J.R. Ward" María Ramos-García Chapter 10: 'There's Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn't There?' The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas" Inmaculada Pérez-Casal...

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• Authors: Maria Ramos-Garcia, Maria Vivanco Ramos-Garcia, Laura Vivanco
• Assisted by: María Ramos-García (Editor), Ramos-Garcia Maria (Editor), Laura Vivanco (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781498589383
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8938-3
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Communication Perspectives in; Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, cultural studies, identity and media, language in media, Literary Studies, love in media, love studies, place and identity, place in media, Popular Culture, romance novels, romance studies , socioling