Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Javaria Farooqui (COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan) ,
Paul Booth (Depaul University USA) ,
Rukmini Pande (O P Jindal Global University India)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 19.70cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9798765110409
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 28 November 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Javaria Farooqui's Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan is certain to become a vital text for scholars of both romance and readers in years to come. Drawing together fan studies and popular romance, it is a lively, rigorous and compelling discussion of the practices of Pakistani readers of Regency romance, examining the complex ways people approach and negotiate these texts. Its core strength is in the way it seeks to take these readers seriously, allowing them to be the experts on their own experiences and situating that in broader critical contexts. * Jodi McAlister, Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University, Australia *
Author Information
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.
