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Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances

MedieKultur, 2016-12, Vol.32 (61), p.42 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

ISSN: 0900-9671 ;ISSN: 1901-9726 ;EISSN: 1901-9726 ;DOI: 10.7146/mediekultur.v32i61.22382

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  • Title:
    Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances
  • Author: Hirdman, Anja
  • Subjects: affect theory ; affect theory, body/mind duality, romance narratives, gendered desire ; body/mind duality ; gendered desire ; Media and Communication Studies ; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap ; romance narratives
  • Is Part Of: MedieKultur, 2016-12, Vol.32 (61), p.42
  • Description: In the wake of the affective turn, emotion and embodiment have emerged as key terms in cultural studies in order to acknowledge the affective dimension of media texts (Gibbs, 2002; Gregg & Seigworth, 2010). Drawing from the cross-disciplinary field of affect theory, the article examines the writing of desire in Harlequin romances through the delineation of gendered encounters. Against the backdrop of earlier feminist critiques of romance fiction, it argues that Harlequin’s intense focus on corporeal sensations and gazes encompasses a looking relationship that differs significantly from the visual mediation of gender and desire. With its use of an extended literary transvestism, a double narrator perspective, and the appropriation of a female gaze, Harlequin offers readers an affective imaginary space in which the significance of the gendered body is re-made, re-versed, and the male body is stripped of its unique position.
  • Publisher: Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)
  • Language: English;Danish
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0900-9671
    ISSN: 1901-9726
    EISSN: 1901-9726
    DOI: 10.7146/mediekultur.v32i61.22382
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