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

by Tace Hedrick

Book Overview

In Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century, Tace Hedrick illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of "chica lit," popular fiction written by Latina authors with Latina characters. She 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822963655
• ISBN13: 9780822963653
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"