Academia y romance: la figura de la académica negra y de color en las novelas románticas de 1980 a la actualidad
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Las novelas románticas en inglés escritas y protagonizadas por mujeres negras, indígenas o de color conforman aún un grupo reducido, pero importante en el mercado. Este artículo propone un análisis de la diversidad racial, y más concretamente del personaje de la académica negra y el lenguaje de la justicia racial, en novelas recientes de este subgénero romántico, que se comparan con una serie de novelas publicadas en 1984 (Adam and Eva y All Good Things de Sandra Kitts, y A Toast to Love de Barbara Stephens). En American Love Story (2019) de Adrianna Herrera, Office Hours (2020) de Katrina Jackson y Take a Hint, Dani Brown (2020) de Talia Hibbert, las autoras recurren a personajes y escenarios académicos para visibilizar cómo las intersecciones de género, sexualidad, raza, clase, o las historias de inmigración se manifiestan en un entorno universitario, supuestamente el bastión del pensamiento libre. A diferencia del personaje de las novelas publicadas en 1984, la manifestación más reciente de esta figura verbaliza el coste que el racismo y el sexismo imponen a personas de color aparentemente exitosas y articula los cambios estructurales y las políticas reparadoras que deben adoptarse para lograr una equidad real.
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