tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post8792825761322633038..comments2024-03-26T01:10:13.720+00:00Comments on Teach Me Tonight: "Long-awaited cultural recognition"E. M. Selingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-61040387343871775532009-06-22T22:22:32.617+01:002009-06-22T22:22:32.617+01:00Gina, Sarah Frantz has notes on the conference, bu...Gina, Sarah Frantz has notes on the conference, but so far she's only had time to post summaries of the first <a href="http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2009/05/princeton-romance-conference-opening.html" rel="nofollow">Keynote Roundable ("Romance Fiction and American Culture")</a> and <a href="http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/2009/04/princeton-romance-conference.html" rel="nofollow">Session 1: Love and Faith: Romance and Religion</a>. She's been very busy setting up <a href="http://iaspr.org/wordpress/" rel="nofollow">IASPR</a>, and she also hasn't had time to post about any of the sessions on romance which took place at the Popular Culture Association conference in New Orleans earlier in the year.<br /><br />There is a paragraph on Beverly Jenkins's talk in Karen W.'s summary of the whole conference (<a href="http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/04/27/a-readers-view-of-the-princeton-romance-conference/" rel="nofollow">posted at Dear Author</a>).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanne-rendell/heaving-bosoms-a-tonic-fo_b_194042.html" rel="nofollow">Joanne Rendell's summary</a> at the Huffington Post only gives one sentence about it: "Beverly Jenkins, a best selling author of African American historical romances, for example, spoke of her book about a free man who goes back into slavery for love."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hillary-rettig/the-eroticization-of-equa_b_201059.html" rel="nofollow">Hillary Rettig's summary</a> of (and thoughts on) the conference includes a bit more about Beverly Jenkins. It's also at the Huffington Post.<br /><br />I don't think I've come across any other summaries of the conference which mention Beverly Jenkins's presentation.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-57496897110055188552009-06-22T21:44:10.066+01:002009-06-22T21:44:10.066+01:00do you happen to know if anyone summarized Beverly...do you happen to know if anyone summarized Beverly Jenkins' talk about AA romance?Ginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08382030922676649070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-44607585586606109662009-04-14T17:17:00.000+01:002009-04-14T17:17:00.000+01:00but wait ... you're on Twitter??!!Not exactly. I'm...<I>but wait ... you're on Twitter??!!</I>Not exactly. I'm just reading some tweets via my Google Reader. If someone doesn't have their tweets padlocked on Twitter, then there'll be an RSS feed of them which can be sent to the Google Reader.<br /><br /><I>Great interviews by Selinger and Roach. The bad rep of romance does not stand a CHANCE</I>I thought it was a really good interview too. I was thrilled by how much space was given to the comments by Catherine Roach, Elizabeth Semmelhack and last but very definitely not least, Eric. As you say, if more articles about the genre start to include quotes from romance scholars (and others in the romance-reading community - I saw <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/books/08roma.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&emc=eta1" REL="nofollow">an article in the New York Times</A> which quoted Jane from Dear Author, and the SBs are getting a lot of coverage of <I>Beyond Heaving Bosoms</I>) there's a hope that the genre's reputation might begin to change among non-romance readers.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-76598649351740988082009-04-14T17:04:00.000+01:002009-04-14T17:04:00.000+01:00Al this is wonderful, but wait ... you're on Twitt...Al this is wonderful, but wait ... you're on Twitter??!!<br /><br /><br />Great interviews by Selinger and Roach. The bad rep of romance does not stand a CHANCE with these folks, the TMT crowd, and the SBs around.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com