What makes a heroine in romance, a genre invested in exploring how can women be happy in culture? Is the genre a place where heroines create integrated identities that reject binaries of what society tells them to be? Dr. Jayashree Kamble discusses her latest book on romance scholarship, Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation. Shelf Love listeners can use “UShelfLove” to get 35% off the book at Indiana University Press, from now until November 2, 2023.

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Guest: Dr. Jayashree Kamble

Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation

https://iupress.org/9780253065704/creating-identity/

Shelf Love Discount code: use “UShelflove” for 35% between September 15, 2023 and November 2, 2023.

Jayashree on Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/members/kamble/

Jayashree’s upcoming New York City book launch events:

• 9/24/23 - https://www.therippedbodicela.com/brooklyn-events
• 9/22/23 - https://aaari.info/23-09-22kamble/

Learn more about the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance at IASPR.org and the open access journal where you can find tons of romance scholarship: JPRStudies.org

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