Romance, race, and riches?
2024; Berghahn Books; Volume: 24; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3828/jrs.2024.18
ISSN1752-2331
Autores Tópico(s)Social Media and Politics
ResumoChica lit was spawned in 2003 with Cuban American Alisa Valdes Rodriguez’s novel The Dirty Girls Social Club . Featuring young upwardly mobile Latinas, the genre provides an interesting counterbalance to the predominant currents of recent Latinx literature which have focused on prejudice faced by Latinos. Contrastingly, chica lit celebrates aspirational heroines and rejects the struggling Latina stereotype. In this novel it promotes assimilation to North American consumer culture, while integrating non-threatening aspects of Latina identity. In an original approach to the novel, a critical framework of segmented- and selective-assimilationist models is applied, where meaningful investment in Latinx culture and history are sidelined in favour of becoming all-American consumer citizens.
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