Irene Pérez-Fernández is a lecturer at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She specializes in contemporary British literature with a particular interest in Black British and Asian British women writers.Carmen Pérez Ríu is a lecturer at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She specializes in contemporary literatures in English and film adaptation studies, with special attention to feminist film theory and media analysis.

• IntroductionRomance and Its Intertextual FabricReaders and the Market Always at heartLoving and Rebranding the ExoticNew Political and Genre Twists

Irene Pérez-Fernández is a lecturer at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She specializes in contemporary British literature with a particular interest in Black British and Asian British women writers.Carmen Pérez Ríu is a lecturer at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She specializes in contemporary literatures in English and film adaptation studies, with special attention to feminist film theory and media analysis.

• IntroductionRomance and Its Intertextual FabricReaders and the Market Always at heartLoving and Rebranding the ExoticNew Political and Genre Twists