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Editor’s Note: Issue 4.1
Last November, the Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University held a two-day conference on “The Radicalism of Romantic Love: Critical Perspectives.” The conference conveners, Renata...
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Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Lawby...
[End Page 1] “My mind drifts. Christian the sadist. Christian the submissive. Christian the untouchable. Christian’s Oedipal impulses… Can I really marry this man?” (E.L. James’s Fifty Shades Darker,...
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Fifty Shades of Remix: The Intersecting Pleasures of Commercial and Fan...
The commercial success of the Fifty Shades of Grey books has prompted an outpouring of media coverage on the trilogy and its rapid success. Much of this coverage has focused on the idea of “mommy porn”...
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The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s...
In 1988, the author and political activist Patrick Califia published Macho Sluts, the first collection of sadomasochism-themed short fiction to provide visibility and erotic legitimacy for the modern...
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Review: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays, edited by...
This comprehensive collection of original essays on popular romance fiction delivers on the promise of its title. The succinct and insightful introductory essay by co-editors Frantz and Selinger is the...
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Review: Delmira Agustini, Sexual Seduction and Vampiric Conquest, by Cathy L....
As one of the most well-known Uruguayan poets of the twentieth century and the only recognized female member of the Latin American modernista movement, Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) has received...
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Review: Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature, edited by...
The relentless pairing of trauma and romance in literature is no coincidence. Both trauma and romance—which, apart from psychological and social experience, manifest as themes, narrative strategies and...
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Review: Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural, by...
Victoria Nelson’s second book, Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural, ends on an invocative note. “May the Gothick never lose its dedication to Story. May it never lose its...
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Special Issue: Love in Latin American Popular Culture (Editor’s...
By one of those quirks that make language so fascinating, in Spanish the word romance, although in common use to refer to a love story, is derived from the same word with an older meaning: romancero,...
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Regimes of Affect: Love and Class in Mexican Neoliberal Cinemaby Ignacio M....
The recent rise in the study of affect and emotions within different paradigms of cultural studies opens many questions relevant to the study of Mexican and Latin American cinema.[1] It has led to the...
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Vulnerable Bodies: Subverting Masculine Normativity in Leopoldo Torre...
Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson enjoyed an intimate connection with Argentine cinema from a very early age: his father, Leopoldo Torres Ríos, and his uncle, Carlos Torres Ríos, were two of the most...
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From Latin to Latino Lover: Hispanicity and Female Desire in Popular...
According to Richard Rodriguez, we owe the invention of the Hispanic to Richard Nixon, whose administration introduced this category in 1973 in the classification system of United States citizens (15)....
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Sara García: Sapphic Romance in Mexican Golden Age Filmmakingby Ileana Baeza...
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Outing Javier Fuentes-León’s Contracorriente and the case for a New Queer...
Javier Fuentes-León’s directorial debut, Contracorriente (2009), has garnered both critical interest and success, winning rave reviews from respected international print and web outlets and coveted...
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Romantic Love in Mexico and Latin America: An Interview with Enrique Sernaby...
Enrique Serna (Mexico City, 1959) is one of Mexico’s most celebrated living writers. Although he is best known for his novels of historical fiction, for example, El seductor de la patria (1999) and...
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Editor’s Note: Issue 4.1
Last November, the Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University held a two-day conference on “The Radicalism of Romantic Love: Critical Perspectives.” The conference conveners, Renata...
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Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Law
[End Page 1] “My mind drifts. Christian the sadist. Christian the submissive. Christian the untouchable. Christian’s Oedipal impulses… Can I really marry this man?” (E.L. James’s Fifty Shades Darker,...
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Fifty Shades of Remix: The Intersecting Pleasures of Commercial and Fan Romances
The commercial success of the Fifty Shades of Grey books has prompted an outpouring of media coverage on the trilogy and its rapid success. Much of this coverage has focused on the idea of “mommy porn”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s...
In 1988, the author and political activist Patrick Califia published Macho Sluts, the first collection of sadomasochism-themed short fiction to provide visibility and erotic legitimacy for the modern...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays, edited by...
This comprehensive collection of original essays on popular romance fiction delivers on the promise of its title. The succinct and insightful introductory essay by co-editors Frantz and Selinger is the...
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