Review: Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency, by Javaria Farooqui
2025/01/01 by Qurratulaen Liaqat · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #South Asian Cinema and Culture #Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics #Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.70138/frct4798
openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/12/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/06
Abstract
Javaria Farooqui’s Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan is the first drop of rain in the generally dry and arid research-scapes of Popular Romance Studies in Pakistan. When I came across this book, I was pleasantly surprised to see formal scholarly debate on a genre which is usually looked down upon in Pakistan’s high brow culture
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