Posts by Carolyn Dineen

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    Chick/Lit: Toni Morrison’s Jazz and Terry McMillan’s How Stella Got Her Groove Back

    April 26th, 2013     by Carolyn Dineen     Comments

    In attempting to find less white, mainstream examples of chick lit, I began to think that “alternative chick lit” is an oxymoron. After all, in a genre known for its light-heartedness and uncritical focus on sex, designer shoes, and Cosmopolitans, it can feel like a world that belongs only to the privileged. Many scholars and critics agree, calling chick lit “fun … without philosophical musings” or “apolitical,” a genre “whose light-heartedness and optimism upstage social … READ MORE