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My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 2, June 2014
- pp. 51-66
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0013
- Article
- Additional Information
Scholars of popular romance fiction have begun to credit the genre with political and aesthetic self-consciousness, a “metatextual turn” that parallels changes in the academic reception of Hindi popular cinema. This essay brings some of these new theoretical models to bear on the Indian rom-com Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na.