A Black Bridget Jones? Candice Carty-Williams’s <em>Queenie</em> (2019): Challenging Discourses of Race and Gender in the Chick-Lit Genre

Mißler, Heike

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A Black Bridget Jones? Candice Carty-Williams’s Queenie (2019): Challenging Discourses of Race and Gender in the Chick-Lit Genre

Published February 13, 2023

1. Introduction: Black British Chick Lit? Candice Carty-Williams’s best-selling debut novel Queenie (2019) has been marketed and reviewed as the story of a Black Bridget…

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Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms

Published June 9, 2022

When Janice Radway conducted her now-famous study of romance readers in the early 1980s, she found that all her respondents “cited the educational value of…

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