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- Title
THE DOMESTIC FICTION AND CHICK LIT GENRES IN THE UNDOMESTIC GODDESS BY SOPHIE KINSELLA.
- Authors
Gruslytė, Monika
- Abstract
Chick lit is characterised as fiction about and for the new woman, the contemporary readership of post-feminist culture, popular literature mainly written by women for women's audience. This postmodern genre is built on the previous women's fiction tradition and embraces several re-constructed and adjusted narrative patterns. Contemporary fiction chick lit, as a postfeminist phenomenon, refers to both the romance novel tradition and feminist ideas of emancipation, displaying them by plots and characters of chick lit fiction, meeting the formulas of popular culture, embraces the features both feminine and feministic, maintains an interaction with the tradition of the domestic novel. The novel 'The Undomestic Goddess' by Sophie Kinsella explores and bridges the two identities of a contemporary young woman by employing the characteristic features of chick lit, referring to both stereotypes of the Victorian period domestic woman and a feminist of the twentieth century, resulting in construction of a postfeminist female character in the early twenty-first century. This juxtaposition of undomestic and domestic 'goddess' in young woman's image reveals the nature of chick lit as a post-feminist phenomenon re-working women's fiction narratives.
- Subjects
UNDOMESTIC Goddess, The (Book); KINSELLA, Sophie, 1969-; FEMINISTS; CHICK lit; WOMEN'S literature; POSTFEMINISM
- Publication
Journal of Comparative Studies / Komparatīvistikas Almanahs, 2014, Issue 6, p102
- ISSN
2255-9388
- Publication type
Literary Criticism