Chica Lit eBook

Illuminates how discourses of Americanization, ethnicity, gender, class, and commodification shape the genre of "chica" popular fiction written by Latina authors with Latina characters. Tace Hedrick argues that chica lit is produced and marketed in the same ways as contemporary romance and chick lit fiction, and aimed at an audience of twenty- to thirty-something upwardly mobile Latina readers.