id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 2b88qc00g7b Belkys Torres Serial Storytelling, Female Audiences and Telenovelas: Television's Influence on Contemporary Latina/o Fiction 2013 .txt text/plain 337 12 29 The motivation behind this investigation lies primarily in the tensions between the increasing presence of telenovelas in contemporary U.S. Latina/o literature and the adamant criticism of scholars directed at fiction writers who incorporate serialized narrative content and other melodramatic forms in their works. So, why are U.S. Latina/o writers critiqued for incorporating this distinctly Hispanic cultural referent in their narratives? cache/2b88qc00g7b.txt txt/2b88qc00g7b.txt