Heroines: Creating Identity in Romance
from Shelf Love: Romance Novel Discourse Hosted by Andrea Martucci
What makes a heroine in romance, a genre invested in exploring how can women be happy in culture? Is the genre a place where heroines create integrated identities that reject binaries of what society tells them to be? Dr. Jayashree Kamble discusses her latest book on romance scholarship, Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation. Shelf Love listeners can use “UShelfLove” to get 35% off the book at Indiana University Press, from now until November 2, 2023. Shelf Love: NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Email: [email protected] Guest: Dr. Jayashree Kamble Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation https://iupress.org/9780253065704/creating-identity/ Jayashree on Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/members/kamble/ Jayashree’s upcoming New York City book launch events: 9/24/23 - https://www.therippedbodicela.com/brooklyn-events 9/22/23 - https://aaari.info/23-09-22kamble/ Learn more about the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance at IASPR.org and the open access journal where you can find tons of romance scholarship: JPRStudies.org Shelf Love: NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Email: [email protected]
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What makes a heroine in romance, a genre invested in exploring how can women be happy in culture? Is the genre a place where heroines create integrated identities that reject binaries of what society tells them to be? Dr. Jayashree Kamble discusses her latest book on romance scholarship, Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation. Shelf Love listeners can use “UShelfLove” to get 35% off the book at Indiana University Press, from now until November 2, 2023.
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