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Romance fandom in 21st-century Pakistan : reading the regency / Javaria Farooqui.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farooqui, Javaria, author.
- Series:
- Bloomsbury Fandom Primers.
- Bloomsbury Fandom Primers Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romance fiction, English--Appreciation--Pakistan.
- Romance fiction, English.
- Reader-response criticism.
- Fans (Persons)--Pakistan.
- Fans (Persons).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, [2025]
- System Details:
- text file HTML
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction 1. "And if I am escaping, it should better be a higher form of romance": Middlebrow Reading in Pakistan 2. "...the scarf on the table" and the "dimly lit" stove: Developing a Close Reading Model for Setting 3. "How desi, how very Regency": Applying the Model to the Regency Setting Conclusion Works Cited Appendix A Appendix B Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Farooqui, Javaria Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan
- ISBN:
- 9798765110423
- OCLC:
- 1443932575
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