Australská prozaička s malajsijskými kořeny se zabývá komplexními identitami a kulturními střety. Její díla často prozkoumávají témata migrace, paměti a hledání domova v globálním světě. Prostřednictvím pečlivě vykreslených postav a pronikavého stylu se autorka dotýká univerzálních lidských zkušeností s odcizením i sounáležitostí. Její psaní nabízí hluboký vhled do psychiky těch, kdo se pohybují mezi různými světy a kulturami.
The story revolves around the enduring friendship of Justin Cheong, Tien Ho, and Nigel Gibson, who navigate a society fractured by ethnic divisions. Their bond is tested through suburban challenges, from personal tragedies to quirky family dynamics, such as Justin's mother's peculiar fixation on cleanliness. As they confront the complexities of their lives, the trio learns about loyalty, identity, and the trials of growing up in a divided world.
While the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries―careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce―romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her journey to selfhood.In Creating Identity , Jayashree Kamblé examines the romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an important "Who is the romance heroine, and what does she want?" To find the answer, Kamblé explores how heroines in ten novels reject societal labels and instead remake themselves on their own terms with their own agency. Using a truly intersectional approach, Kamblé combines gender and sexuality, Marxism, critical race theory, and literary criticism to survey various aspects of heroines' identities, such as sexuality, gender, work, citizenship, and race.Ideal for readers interested in gender studies and literary criticism, Creating Identity highlights a genre in which heroines do not accept that independence and strong, loving relationships are mutually exclusive but instead demand both, echoing the call from the very readers who have made this genre so popular.