Rethinking the Romance Genre [electronic resource] : Global Intimacies in Contemporary Literary and Visual Culture /
Davis, E.author.
Rethinking the Romance Genre examines why the romance genre has proven such an irresistible form for contemporary writers and filmmakers as they approach global issues. In contemporary texts ranging from literary works, to films, to social media, romance facilitates a range of intimacies that offer new feminist models in the age of globalization.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: global intimacies -- 1980s South African fiction and the romance of resistance -- Rewriting the colonial romance: Ahdaf Soueif, Nayantara Sahgal, and global intimacies between women -- The gothic global: capitalist excesses, postcolonial returns -- The intimacies of globalization: bodies and borders on-screen -- Conclusion: electronic affects.
Rethinking the Romance Genre examines why the romance genre has proven such an irresistible form for contemporary writers and filmmakers as they approach global issues. In contemporary texts ranging from literary works, to films, to social media, romance facilitates a range of intimacies that offer new feminist models in the age of globalization.
Motion pictures-History.
Literature.
Fiction.
Motion pictures and television.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Film History.
Literature, general.
Fiction.
Screen Studies.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.