Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan

Name: Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan
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SKU: 9798765110393
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Reading the Regency

By Javaria Farooqui

Series: Bloomsbury Fandom Primers

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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... Read More

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"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"--

Offers the first major study of Anglophone romance fandom in South Asia, providing a new reader-centric model that engages with romance readers as genre experts.

Description

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.

Series: Bloomsbury Fandom Primers

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798765110393

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 November 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 8 bw illus

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 160g

Pages: 144

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Education & Reference Javaria Farooqui Non-Fiction Series: Bloomsbury Fandom Primers

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.

Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan