Contemporary Chick Lit & Feminism

Charlotte’s research focuses on contemporary chick lit and feminism. Therefore, this month, the Romance Reading Group will be dissecting the genre of chick lit by comparing a foregrounded chick lit text (Helen Fielding’s (1996)) with two newer chick lit novels (Ayisha Malik’s (2015) and Candice Carty-Williams’ (2019)), asking questions such as: What is chick lit? Is the term itself controversial or a reclamation? How does the genre connect to romance? Is an intimate relationship crucial to the plot? Are they feminist works, or do they encompass a sense of feminist ideology?Bridget Jones’ Diary Sofia Khan is Not ObligedQueenie

Celebrated and marketed as a ‘Muslim Bridget Jones’, d can be argued as a ‘reworking’ of classic chick lit text, . So we ask the following question: to what extent is this technique a way of diversifying the genre of chick lit? Furthermore, has been frequently billed as ‘ meets’ and praised…