Abstract
If the hero as capitalist allows the genre romance to gauge the working of the free market and multinational capitalism, the hero as warrior introduces perspectives on the wars that these economies fight under the banner of democracy. The trope includes men who are career soldiers, mercenaries, or even espionage agents, figures engaged in the mission of defending freedom and safeguarding the democratic capitalist nation’s security. Through this hero, romance novels encapsulate the impact of a curious feature of post-modernity—the constant intrusion of international conflict onto the public consciousness. In other words, in this adaptation of the romance hero, the genre is cognizant of the particular economic and military nexus of the late-twentieth and twenty-first century. This history—the absent cause that Fredric Jameson insists must inform, and be constructed during, any textual analysis—can be retrieved through this trait of the romance strand (Political Unconscious 81, 101–2).KeywordsNational SecurityMake MeaningRomantic AttachmentHappy EndingAmerican SoldierThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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