Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture

María Ramos-García is professor of Spanish at South Dakota State University. Laura Vivanco holds a PhD from the University of St. Andrews.

Preface

Introduction: María Ramos-García and Laura Vivanco



Part I: Place, Travel, History and Language



Chapter 1: Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s-1970s)

María del Mar Pérez-Gil

Chapter 2: ‘And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road’: The Anglo-centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955-1987)

María Jesús Vera-Cazorla

Chapter 3: Cross-Cultural Romance and the Shadow of the Sheikh

Maureen Mulligan

Chapter 4: Othering and Language: Bilingual Romances in the Canary Islands

María Isabel González-Cruz

Chapter 5:Language Awareness in Four Romances Set on the Island of Madeira

Aline Bazenga

Chapter 6: Archipelagoes of Romance: Decapitalized Otherness in Caribbean Trash Fiction

Ramón Soto-Crespo



Part II: Tensions and Transformations



Chapter 7: Public Conflicts and Private Treaties in Kathleen Eagle’s Native American Themed Romance Fiction

Johanna Hoorenman

Chapter 8: Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context

Laura Vivanco

Chapter 9: Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J.R. Ward”

María Ramos-García

Chapter 10: ‘There’s Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn’t There?’ The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas”

Inmaculada Pérez-Casal