INDIAN CHICK LIT: A GENRE FOR DESI GIRLS
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Chick Lit, a contemporary genre, is said to have a dual Anglo-American origin in 1996 with the publication of Bridget Jones’s Diary in the UK and Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City in the USA. The commercial genre gets the flak from the literary critics as well as adoration form its women readers at the same time. However, there is no denying that Chick Lit has carved a niche for itself in the history of the world literature and after getting enough attention in the western world, it is creating ripples in the literary scenario of India also. No doubt, the desi Chick Lit has its own desi flavours with all the desi spices and ingredients added to the plot and the narrative. It is believed that the genre has been introduced to the young Indian girls with the publication of Advaita Kala’s Almost Single in 2007 and there was a spurt of desi Chick Lit books in India read fondly by Indian Urban population especially women. The present paper is an endeavour to study the desi flavour of this foreign genre and its relation with the life of the contemporary independent and liberated Indian girls leading cosmopolitan lives and to showcase the relationship of this genre with Post-feminism. To explore in depth and support my argument I discuss two representative books of this genre: Almost Single by Advaita Kala and Trust Me by Rajashree.
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SONIA VASHISHTA OBEROI
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