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Making meaning in popular romance fiction = an epistemology /

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Title/Author:	Making meaning in popular romance fiction/ Jayashree Kamble.
Reminder of title:	an epistemology /
Author:	Kamble, Jayashree.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	208 p. :7 b&w, ill. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Capitalism in literature. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137395052 (electronic bk.) :

Making meaning in popular romance fiction = an epistemology /
Kamble, Jayashree.

Making meaning in popular romance fictionan epistemology /[electronic resource] :Jayashree Kamble. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 208 p. :7 b&w, ill.

Electronic book text.

Introduction: What Does It Mean to Say 'Romance Novel'? 1. Capitalism: Money and Means in Romance Novels 2. War: Patriotism and the Traumatized Romance Novel Hero 3. Heterosexuality: Negotiating Normative Romance Novel Desire 4. White Protestantism: Race and Religious Ethos in Romance Novels Conclusion: The Next Chapter for Romance Novels.

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Despite pioneering studies, the term 'romance novel' itself has not been subjected to scrutiny. This book examines mass-market romance fiction in the U.K., Canada, and the U.S. through four categories: capitalism, war, heterosexuality, and white Protestantism and casts a fresh light on the genre.Despite pioneering studies, the term romance novel itself has not been subjected to scrutiny. This study examines mass-market romance fiction in the U.K., Canada, and the U.S. through four categories: capitalism, war, heterosexuality, and white Protestantism to cast a fresh light on the genre. Adopting Michel Foucault's idea of the 'episteme,' Jayashree Kamble argues that romance novels are a quintessentially twentieth and twenty-first century genre and rooted in the real world conditions (episteme) that correspond to the four elements above. As such, romance fiction provides a prismatic look at the struggles around globalization, 'democratic' armed aggression, heteropatriarchy, and historically Protestant values, particularly as understood by the genre's readers and authors.

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Jayashree Kamble is Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College-CUNY, USA. She has received the Romance Writers of America Academic Research Grant twice and has published scholarship on romance fiction and Hindi cinema.

ISBN: 1137395052 (electronic bk.) :£53.50Subjects--Topical Terms:

648602
Capitalism in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN3448.L67 / K36 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 823.08509

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