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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade Review“Hedrick argues that chica lit novels negotiate a fine line between selling ethnicity and not seeming
too ethnic or threateningly so; the lesson of chica lit is assimilable Americanness to which being Latina merely adds flavor without presenting conflict or critique.”
—Marta Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas|“
Chica Lit is the first comprehensive study of an understudied genre. Hedrick analyzes the implications of how such texts convey a middle class Latina identity along with a reach toward other seemingly contradictory ethnic identity markers.”
—Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University
