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A collection of stories reflects the transformation of the literature of love in Latin America, as well as a change in the role and nature of women, breaking social, religious, political, and sexual barriers in fiction in works by Elena Poniatowska, Ana Mar a Shua and other notable women writers.
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By asking questions about authenticity, cultural appropriation, and commodification, Thrill of the Chaste considers Amish fiction's effects on Amish and non-Amish audiences alike.
Amish in literature. --- Love stories, American --- Christian fiction, American --- American romance fiction --- American fiction --- History and criticism. --- Romance stories, American
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In the world of the evangelical romance novel, sex and desire are mitigated by an omnipresent third party, the divine. This book states that women's interpretations demonstrate the constant negotiations that characterize evangelical living. It shows the aesthetic sensibility to help alter conventional understandings, both secular and religious.
Christian fiction, American --- American fiction --- Romance fiction, American --- Christianity and literature --- Women and literature --- Evangelicalism --- Evangelicalism in literature. --- Literature --- American literature --- American romance fiction --- Love stories, American --- History and criticism. --- Christian authors --- Women authors
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All of Brady's stories are gritty and unflinching in their gaze, yet lyrical and rich in the imagery of stasis and change. There is much to learn in these tales of flawed but good people working hard to hold their lives together.
Love stories, American. --- American romance fiction --- Love stories, American --- American fiction --- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) --- Bay Area, San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Francisco Bay Region (Calif.) --- San Francisco Region (Calif.) --- Romance fiction, American. --- Romance-language fiction, American.
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"Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney's princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed on the one hand for its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/female coupling and mythical happy endings, romance fiction is a multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon, creating national and international societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars. Catherine M. Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in American popular culture.
Romance fiction, American --- Romance fiction, English --- Women in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Popular literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- English romance fiction --- Love stories, English --- English fiction --- American romance fiction --- Love stories, American --- American fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- Romance-language fiction, American --- Romance-language fiction, English
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A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture. Combining close readings of novels, discursive analysis of blogs and forums, and interviews with authors, Jarmakani explores popular investments in the war on terror by examining the collisions between fantasy and reality in desert romances. Focusing on issues of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, she foregrounds the role that desire plays in contemporary formations of U.S. imperialism. Drawing on transnational feminist theory and cultural studies, An Imperialist Love Story offers a radical reinterpretation of the war on terror, demonstrating romance to be a powerful framework for understanding how it works, and how it perseveres.
Romance fiction, American --- Erotic stories, American --- Heroes in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Deserts in literature. --- East and West in literature. --- Social values in literature. --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- American erotic stories --- American fiction --- American romance fiction --- Love stories, American --- History and criticism. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance. --- Desert romances. --- Sheikh romances.
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