It's interesting that this is the opposite of romance novels, which always seem to have an 'exotic' male lead rather than a 'native' girl. I suppose that the reader of the romance novel is implicitly female (and white), whereas the audience for the white (male) saviour genre is male (and white).
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Sun, Jun. 3rd, 2007 03:57 am (UTC)Ooo, yes, that's a good point.