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Race and Romance: Coloring the Past

Race and Romance: Coloring the Past

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0866986944
ISBN13: 9780866986946
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S
Published: Apr 29 2022
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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