“New Zealand is a country that constantly tells itself who it is. Every single day there are messages and statements to affirm that this is…
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1. Introduction: Black British Chick Lit? Candice Carty-Williams’s best-selling debut novel Queenie (2019) has been marketed and reviewed as the story of a Black Bridget…
Comments closed1. INTRODUCTION As people are increasingly reaching for electronic devices instead of books to spend their leisure time, this has resulted in a number of…
Comments closedIntroduction What is it like to teach classes on popular romance fiction in a country where the genre has been more or less invisible for…
Comments closedChick lit is a genre that usually depicts what life is like for young women in big cities, or occasionally—for the sake of variety—on fashionable…
Comments closedFrom almost the moment the terms chick lit entered the English vocabulary in the mid-1990s, the popular novels grouped into the category have faced derision,…
Comments closedIntroduction This article examines the work of Stefania Bertola (b. 1952), a prolific Italian writer of romantic fiction who creatively blends the codes and practices…
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