Popular romance and the woman reader

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dc.contributor.advisorDriver, Den_ZA
dc.contributor.authorNuttall, Sarahen_ZA
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dc.date.issued1991en_ZA
dc.description.abstract'Popular Romance and the Woman Reader' is divided into three parts. The first is an analysis of theories of reading, of the woman reader and of how we read popular texts. The first section discusses women readers and popular romance in a Western context, with special reference to an American study by Janice Radway, Reading the Romance, and the second looks at how similar issues might apply amongst African women readers. Part II is a textual analysis of several romance texts. The final part is an account of four interviews in which black South African women talk about their romance reading. Although the focus of the study is on popular romance, I also intend it to re-examine the categories of 'woman reader' and 'black woman reader in South Africa'. As new freedoms are opened to the reader in South Africa, it is offered as a contribution to an understanding of how reading, and the construction of subjectivity itself, can be transformed in the future.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationNuttall, S. (1991). <i>Popular romance and the woman reader</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18263en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationNuttall, Sarah. <i>"Popular romance and the woman reader."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18263en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNuttall, S. 1991. Popular romance and the woman reader. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Nuttall, Sarah AB - 'Popular Romance and the Woman Reader' is divided into three parts. The first is an analysis of theories of reading, of the woman reader and of how we read popular texts. The first section discusses women readers and popular romance in a Western context, with special reference to an American study by Janice Radway, Reading the Romance, and the second looks at how similar issues might apply amongst African women readers. Part II is a textual analysis of several romance texts. The final part is an account of four interviews in which black South African women talk about their romance reading. Although the focus of the study is on popular romance, I also intend it to re-examine the categories of 'woman reader' and 'black woman reader in South Africa'. As new freedoms are opened to the reader in South Africa, it is offered as a contribution to an understanding of how reading, and the construction of subjectivity itself, can be transformed in the future. DA - 1991 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1991 T1 - Popular romance and the woman reader TI - Popular romance and the woman reader UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18263 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/18263
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationNuttall S. Popular romance and the woman reader. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 1991 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18263en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherLiterary Studiesen_ZA
dc.titlePopular romance and the woman readeren_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMAen_ZA
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