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- Title
Trading Cultural Baggage for Gucci Luggage: The Ambivalent Latinidad of Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez's "The Dirty Girls Social Club."
- Authors
Hurt, Erin
- Abstract
Presents literary criticism for the novel "The Dirty Girls Social Club" by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. The book, which is a piece of chick lit, seeks to represent Hispanic American woman without the stereotypes by which they are typically represented. The women of the novel are white collar and are interested in material possessions. The rise of the Latino population in the U.S. is considered as is the prominence of Hispanic Americans in popular culture.
- Subjects
DIRTY Girls Social Club, The (Book); VALDES-Rodriguez, Alisa; HISPANIC American women in literature; CHICK lit; STEREOTYPES
- Publication
MELUS, 2009, Vol 34, Issue 3, p133
- ISSN
0163-755X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/mel.0.0034