![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This pairing between Native heroes and white heroines can be found in U.S. While Anderson’s The Nanny Plan contains an Indigenous heroine and white hero, a larger body of romance fiction novels feature relationships between white heroines and Native or mixed-race heroes. Furthermore, she criticized Anderson’s decision to perpetuate stereotypes about Indigenous people, as this once again placed the narrative of Native characters in the hands of a non-Native author. While Milan’s goal was to draw attention to broader trends of bias and racial prejudice in the romance fiction industry, her tweets shed light on the stereotyped representations of Native heroes and heroines that have persisted in U.S. Milan argued that the novella contains problematic depictions of Indigenous characters, as it “was a book (written by a white author) where the heroine was Native and had a family history of alcoholism and poverty (because of course she did)” while “the hero was a white savior” April 2, 2018). While the novella received mostly positive reviews upon its release, the story was highly criticized by Courtney Milan, a former Director-at-Large for the Romance Writers of America, in a series of tweets in 2018. Anderson won the Contemporary Romance category for The Nanny Plan (2015), a novella that explores the relationship between a billionaire and a Native American heroine (Romance Writers of America GoodReads). Representations of Native American Heroes During the 1990s and the 2010sĪt the 2016 RITA Awards, author Sarah M. ![]()
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