New Issue of JPRS on Black Romance, and other new publications

Issue 11 of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies features a special issue on Black Romance, edited by Margo Hendricks and Julie Moody-Freeman. Among other items, it includes the following articles:

• Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer
  Rita B. Dandridge
• Her Bodyguard: Sandra Kitt’s The Color of Love as a foundational text for BWWM romance
  Piper Huguley, Ph.D.
• Black Romance Authors and Community Cultural Wealth: A Case Study of Brenda Jackson’s Career
  Natalie T. J. Tindall, Ph.D., APR
• Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance
  Margo Hendricks
• Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas
  Nicole M. Jackson
• Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon
  Jamee N. Pritchard
• Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis
  Julie E. Moody-Freeman

Other recent publications about romance are:

Abrahamsson, Elin (2022). "Rättvisemärkt romantik: Feelgood, flärd och feminism i samtida svensk romance." in  Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? 185-230.

Bilodeau, Isabelle (2022). "How Romance Translators Write Themselves and Their Readers into Afterwords." Departmental Bulletin Paper 47:81-98.

Deng, Yiwei (2022). "The Aesthetic form of Childhood Sweetheart: I Love You, None of Your Business." Frontiers in Economics and Management 3.4: 625-629.

Larson, Christine and Elspeth Ready (2022). "Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing." New Media & Society. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221090195

Nankervis, Madison (2022). “Diversity in Romance Novels: Race, Sexuality, Neurodivergence, Disability, and Fat Representation.” Publishing Research Quarterly. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-022-09881-6