Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan - Reading the Regency

Romance Fandom in 21st-century Pakistan offers the first major study of English-speaking 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.>

About the author

Javaria Farooqui is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Studies at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Pakistan. Dr. Farooqui’s research interests fall across multiple disciplines and topic areas in the humanities and social sciences, including fan studies, book history, women’s writing and histories, digital humanities, language acquisition, popular romance studies, and reader response studies. She is engaged in research projects that explore the reception and materiality of texts, the ramifications of colonization and its aftermath on a nation’s literary culture, gender-based violence, and the problematic reception of Anglophone movies in Pakistan.

Product details

• Authors: Javaria Farooqui
• Assisted by: Paul Booth (Editor), Rukmini Pande (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9798765110393
• ISBN: 9798765110393
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Fandom Primers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Pakistan, Historical romance, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations