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Creating Identity
While the world often categorizes women in reductive
false binaries-careerist versus mother, feminine versus
fierce-romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an
imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her
journey to selfhood.
In Creating Identity , Jayashree Kamblé examines the
romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what
audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an
important question: \"Who is the romance heroine, and what does she
want?\" To find the answer, Kamblé explores how heroines in ten
novels reject societal labels and instead remake themselves on
their own terms with their own agency. Using a truly intersectional
approach, Kamblé combines gender and sexuality, Marxism, critical
race theory, and literary criticism to survey various aspects of
heroines' identities, such as sexuality, gender, work, citizenship,
and race.
Ideal for readers interested in gender studies and literary
criticism, Creating Identity highlights a genre in which
heroines do not accept that independence and strong, loving
relationships are mutually exclusive but instead demand both,
echoing the call from the very readers who have made this genre so
popular.
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Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Representation
While the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries-careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce-romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her journey to selfhood.In Creating Identity, Jayashree Kamblé examines the romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an important question: \"Who is the romance heroine, and what does she want?\" To find the answer, Kamblé explores how heroines in ten novels reject societal labels and instead remake themselves on their own terms with their own agency. Using a truly intersectional approach, Kamblé combines gender and sexuality, Marxism, critical race theory, and literary criticism to survey various aspects of heroines' identities, such as sexuality, gender, work, citizenship, and race. Ideal for readers interested in gender studies and literary criticism, Creating Identity highlights a genre in which heroines do not accept that independence and strong, loving relationships are mutually exclusive but instead demand both, echoing the call from the very readers who have made this genre so popular.
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Fugitive six
The Human Garde Academy was created in the aftermath of an alien invasion of Earth. It was meant to provide a safe haven for teens across the globe who were suddenly developing incredible powers known as Legacies. Taylor Cook was one of the newest students and had no idea if she'd ever fit in. But when she was mysteriously abducted, her friends broke every rule in the book to save her. In the process, they uncovered a secret organization that was not only behind Taylor's kidnapping but also the disappearance of numerous teens with abilities. An organization that has dark roots in the Loric's past, untold resources, and potentially even a mole at their own school. Now these friends, who have become known to other students as the \"Fugitive Six,\" must work together to bring this mysterious group to an end before they can hurt anyone else.
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Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction
The first extensive study of gay and lesbian historical fiction, this book demonstrates how the highly popular sub-genre helps us understand gay and lesbian history. It shows not only why the sub-genre should be taken more seriously by historians but also how it implicitly works to ameliorate divisions between Christianity and homosexuality.
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The adventures of Captain Underpants : the first epic novel
When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper.
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Heroes and Heroines in Zimbabwean Fiction
This paper was developed from a talk that I gave on heroes and heroines in Zimbabwean fiction at the now defunct Book Café in Harare, Zimbabwe. By the time they invited me, my hosts had already come up with a clearly demarcated guideline of who heroes and heroines are, and connected these heroes and heroines to what they called 'revered' values of 'our' society. My response was not to follow that template, but to create a separate deconstructionist taxonomy that questioned such an assumption. This deconstructionist adventure was based on the belief that heroes/heroines are not the same for everyone, especially in a post-independence Zimbabwean society characterised by conditions that are far removed from the promises of independence. Thus, in a country whose independence has been postponed because of various factors, including a leadership whose form of governance involves violence against its citizens in the name of protecting them, a monolithic view of heroes/heroines and revered values needs to be interrogated. Zimbabwean literature offers an inventory that refuses to pander to my hosts' template, and it is this inventory that I used to question the assumption that Zimbabwe was one, huge, happy and united national family because based on its many literary texts, what we have is a dystopian family still trying to find its way and define its heroes/heroines.
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Captain Underpants and the attack of the talking toilets
Principal Krupp once again turns into the superhero Captain Underpants in order to save the world, and Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, from the evil talking toilets and the Turbo Toilet 2000.
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Veiled superheroes
Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture focuses on female Muslim superheroes in graphic narratives such as the comic Ms. Marvel, the animated television series BurkaAvenger, and the webcomic Qahera.
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