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The Development of Popular Fiction in the Late Taishō Era Increasing Readership of Women’s Magazines (Taishō kōki tsūzoku shōsetsu no tenkai: Fujin zasshi no dokusha-sō)

By Ai Maeda, Rebecca Copeland, James A. Fujii

Book: Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity

Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

Published: 04 March 2004

DOI: 10.1215/9780822385622-007

EISBN: 978-0-8223-8562-2

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Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction

By David Glover

Published: 01 January 1996

DOI: 10.1215/9780822398912

EISBN: 978-0-8223-9891-2

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Factory Labor and Literary Aesthetics The Lowell Mill Girl, Popular Fiction, and the Proletarian Grotesque

By Lori Merish

Book: Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States

Published: 24 March 2017

DOI: 10.1215/9780822373315-003

EISBN: 978-0-8223-7331-5

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Popular Literary Fiction

By Jim Collins

Book: Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture

Published: 09 June 2010

EISBN: 978-0-8223-9197-5

...Popular Literary Fiction ...

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By Brian Russell Roberts, Keith Foulcher

Book: Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference

Published: 11 March 2016

EISBN: 978-0-8223-7464-0

... protest novel African American literature popular fiction James Baldwin African American expatriates ...

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A Passion for Reading The Role of Early Twentieth-Century Urdu Novels in the Construction of an Individual Female Identity in 1930s Hyderabad

By Anshu Malhotra, Sylvia Vatuk, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

Book: Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia

Published: 12 October 2015

DOI: 10.1215/9780822374978-002

EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8

... This chapter contributes to scholarly discussions of the role of popular fiction in the development of a female selfhood. It explores how reading Urdu-language fiction contributed to the development of a young Muslim girl’s sense of self, as she was growing up in the 1920s in a scholarly...

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Archipelagic Trash Despised Forms in the Cultural History of the Americas

By Brian Russell Roberts, Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, Michelle Ann Stephens

Book: Archipelagic American Studies

Published: 12 May 2017

DOI: 10.1215/9780822373209-014

EISBN: 978-0-8223-7320-9

... This essay argues that “trash” is a key category for understanding processes of cultural devaluation and decapitalization. It investigates what it frames as despised forms in a specific literary archive: the vast production of Caribbean pulp fiction published in the post-WWII period. Examining...

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