As Robert Eaglestone says in his chapter in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma, “some critics have argued or even assumed that trauma can…
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In South Asian Gothic: Haunted Cultures, Histories, and Media, editors Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valančiūnas, alongside thirteen fellow “expert scholars of film, literature, and cultural…
Comments closed“New Zealand is a country that constantly tells itself who it is. Every single day there are messages and statements to affirm that this is…
Comments closedI came to the study of romance media largely by accident. I didn’t grow up reading or watching romances: those activities were for girls, or…
Comments closedHere’s what sparked my interest in popular romance: a tottering stack of books next to my mother’s bed. The paperbacks were her romance novels, what…
Comments closedTakeo (Tak) Tanaka confronts wartime tragedy in Danielle Steel’s Silent Honor. Franklin Roosevelt has issued Executive Order 9066, resulting in the exile and mass incarceration…
Comments closedIt is highly doubtful that enthusiasts of romantic cinema would consider Richard Linklater’s trilogy, Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), Before Midnight (2013) to be…
Comments closedContraceptives and safer sex practices in popular romance fiction have been a hot topic with a variety of authors, commentators, and scholars commenting on their…
Comments closedIn the Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance (2021) Jonathan A. Allan stated that “[o]ne unresolvable conundrum, or at least one that has ongoing permanence,…
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