The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance by Jeania Ree V. Moore

“…Bringing together African American historiography and popular romance studies with Black women’s theological ethics and literature, this article examines Jenkins’s novels, her formation as a writer, and her reader reception to shine a new light on the many facets of Black popular romance. …”
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Re-imagining Africa: revisiting Rider Haggard’s legacy in modern times with particular reference to South Africa by Lindy STIEBEL

“…It will draw on my books Imagining Africa: landscape in H. Rider Haggard’s African romances (2001) and also on the Introduction to Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: H. …”
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Her Heart Lies at the Feet of the Mother by Fiona Moolla

“… Sudanese-British writer, Leila Aboulela’s novel, Minaret (2005) transforms the plot structure of Western literary and popular romance forms and develops further the plotlines of African-American Muslim romance novels. …”
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La nuit américaine dans Noir de Robert Coover by Marc Amfreville

“…Drawing from recognizable romances and tales of detection (early English, American and Victorian Gothic), but also from classic writers such as Hawthorne and Conrad, not to mention Chandler and the film adaptation of The Big Sleep, Coover takes us into an urban nightmare in its horizontal labyrinthine dimension and its vertical and spectral depths. …”
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Serialised Translations in the Estonian Newspapers in the Beginning of the 20th Century (1900‒1940) by Aile Möldre

“…In the independent Republic of Estonia, in the 1920s and 1930s, Anglo-American literature occupied the leading position in accordance with the general cultural orientation. …”
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