Chica Lit - Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century

Illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of "chica” popular fiction written by Latina authors with Latina characters. Tace Hedrick argues that chica lit is produced and marketed in the same ways as contemporary romance and chick lit fiction, and aimed at an audience of twenty- to thirty-something upwardly mobile Latina readers.

About the author

Tace Hedrick is associate professor of English and women's studies at the University of Florida. She is the author of Mestizo Modernism: Race, Nation, and Identity in Latin American Culture, 1900-1940.

Summary

Illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of "chica" popular fiction written by Latina authors with Latina characters. Tace Hedrick argues that chica lit is produced and marketed in the same ways as contemporary romance and chick lit fiction, and aimed at an audience of twenty- to thirty-something upwardly mobile Latina readers.

Product details

• Authors: Tace Hedrick
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.2015
• EAN: 9780822963653
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6365-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 222 g
• Series: Latino and Latin American Prof; Latino and Latin American Profiles; Latino and Latin American Profiles; Latinx and Latin American Prof; Latinx and Latin American Profiles
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies