A Black Bridget Jones? Candice Carty-Williams’s <em>Queenie</em> (2019): Challenging Discourses of Race and Gender in the Chick-Lit Genre

Mißler, Heike

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A Black Bridget Jones? Candice Carty-Williams’s Queenie (2019): Challenging Discourses of Race and Gender in the Chick-Lit Genre

Published February 13, 2023

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…

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On Teaching, Not Teaching, and Teaching The Sheik

Published December 21, 2020

In the Beginning (Notes and Topics) In mid-July, 2005, I opened a new Word file and sketched out the reading list for ENG 285, my…

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Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film

Published August 4, 2010

In 1919 a romance novel by a little-known Derbyshire woman was published, featuring the story of an aristocratic but tomboyish English virgin who, in her…

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