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- Title
Chicanas and “Chick Lit”: Contested Latinidad in the Novels of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.
- Authors
MORRISON, AMANDA MARIA
- Abstract
The author discusses the success of the fiction of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, including "The Dirty Girls Social Club" and mentions that Valdes-Rodriguez attempts to make Latinas palatable to mainstream consumers. She discusses Valdes-Rodriguez' ideas on race and interethnic distinctions within the context of the broader publishing industry and the discourse concerning race and ethnicity in the U.S. She notes that Latina/o readers are viewed as an untapped market with the potential to revitalize a flagging industry. However, she cautions against allowing the marketplace to define the meaning of being Latina/o.
- Subjects
VALDES-Rodriguez, Alisa; DIRTY Girls Social Club, The (Book); LITERATURE publishing; PRINT culture; POPULAR culture &; literature; HISPANIC American women in literature; HISPANIC Americans in literature
- Publication
Journal of Popular Culture, 2010, Vol 43, Issue 2, p309
- ISSN
1540-5931
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-5931.2010.00743.x