Race and Romance: Coloring the Past

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By Margo Hendricks

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Race and Romance: Coloring the Past examines the intersection of race and the literary tradition of romance. It explores themes such as colourism, white passing, and white presenting within romance literature, ranging from Heliodorus' Aithiopika to Aphra Behn's short novels, and up to Beverly Jenkins' modern work Forbidden. The book discusses the complexities of racial identity and the influence of white settler colonialism in early modern romance narratives.
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This book is ideal for readers and scholars interested in the romance genre, literary studies, and the cultural implications of race within literature.

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This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue.

Race and Romance: Coloring the Past explores the literary and cultural genealogy of colorism, white passing, and white presenting in the romance genre. The scope of the study ranges from Heliodorus’ Aithiopika to the short novels of Aphra Behn, to the modern romance novel Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins.

This analysis engages with the troublesome racecraft of “passing” and the instability of racial identity and its formation from the premodern to the present. The study also looks at the significance of white settler colonialism to early modern romance narratives.

A bridge between studies of early modern romance and scholarship on twenty-first-century romance novels, this book is well-suited for those interested in the romance genre.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780866986946

Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 April 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 151.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 310g

Pages: 160

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Margo Hendricks Non-Fiction

About the Author

Margo Hendricks is professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is coeditor, with Patricia Parker, of Women, Race and Writing in the Early Modern Period, and she publishes romance novels under the pen name Elysabeth Grace.