Javaria Farooqui

Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan

Reading the Regency
Herausgeber: Booth, Paul; Pande, Rukmini

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, and fan studies, Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan considers the reception of Anglophone romance fiction by reading communities of colour. The author proposes an innovative reader-centric theoretical model, which positions romance genre fans as experts and approaches the texts through their lens"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 126mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9798765110393
• Artikelnr.: 68488057

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. "And if I am escaping, it should better be a higher form of romance":
Middlebrow Reading in Pakistan
2. ".the scarf on the table" and the "dimly lit" stove: Developing a Close
Reading Model for Setting
3. "How desi, how very Regency": Applying the Model to the Regency Setting
Conclusion
Works Cited
Appendix A
Appendix B
Index