Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre.
| Author/creator | Hurt, Erin |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Milton : Routledge, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Contents | Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; Prologue: A Second Read: Further Reflections on Women-of-Color Chick Lit; SECTION I: Categories of Chick Lit; 1 "More Than Sex, Shopping, and Shoes": Cosmopolitan Indigeneity and Cultural Politics in Anita Heiss's Koori Lit; 2 Against Asianness: On Being Cool, Feminist, and American in Asian/American Chick Lit; SECTION II: Texts and Tropes; 3 Narratives of Latina Girlhood in Malín Alegría's Estrella's Quinceañera and Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico. |
| Contents | 4 "I live a fabulous Asian-American life-ask me how!" Kim Wong Keltner Unpacks Contemporary Asian American Female Identity in The Dim Sum of All Things and Buddha Baby; 5 The "Aha Moment": Representing Transformation and Black Women's Trauma in the Chick Lit Genre; SECTION III: Decentering Whiteness; 6 Neoliberal Fantasies: Erica Kennedy's Feminista (2009); 7 The White Terry McMillan: Centering Black Women Within Chick Lit's Genealogy; SECTION IV: Authorial Voices; 8 Writing Chica Lit; 9 Interview with Kavita Daswani; 10 Interview with Kim Wong Keltner; 11 Interview with Sofia Quintero. |
| Contents | Conclusion: Reading Neoliberal Fairy Tales; Bibliography; Index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Hurt, Erin. Theorizing Ethnicity and Nationality in the Chick Lit Genre. Milton : Routledge, ©2018 9781138092525 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781351606974 |
| ISBN | 1351606972 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |