| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages) |
| 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 |
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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 Baby5 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 |
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Conclusion: Reading Neoliberal Fairy TalesBibliography; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351606974 |
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1351606972 |
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