Race and Romance: Coloring the Past - Couverture souple

Hendricks, Margo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0866986596 ISBN 13 : 9780866986595

Editeur : ACMRS Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Margo Hendricks is professor emerita at 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ACMRS Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0866986596
• ISBN 13: 9780866986595
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 133
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• Personne responsable: non disponible