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Interracial Romance Novels and the Resolution of Racial Difference
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Blanding, Cristen Celeste
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Year and Degree
2005, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Popular Culture.
Abstract
This thesis is a study of the emerging subgenre of category romance novels that depict interracial relationships, specifically relationships between black women and white men. Employing textual analysis of twenty-six novels published from 1995-2005, by romance publishers such as Harlequin, Silhouette, and Genesis Press, and situating them as category romance novels targeted towards a black female audience and written by black female authors, this study argues that these novels constitute a new subgenre, and that the conventions and themes that are common to these novels conceptualize racial difference as the most salient issue in the depiction of interracial romantic relationships, while simultaneously arguing that romantic love is fundamentally apolitical.
Committee
Marilyn Motz (Advisor)
Pages
62 p.
Keywords
Romance novels
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Gender
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Race
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Whiteness
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African-Americans
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Textual Analysis
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Popular Literature
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Feminist Analysis
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Blanding, C. C. (2005).
Interracial Romance Novels and the Resolution of Racial Difference
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1131365873
APA Style (7th edition)
Blanding, Cristen.
Interracial Romance Novels and the Resolution of Racial Difference.
2005. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1131365873.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Blanding, Cristen. "Interracial Romance Novels and the Resolution of Racial Difference." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1131365873
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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