A Black Bridget Jones? Candice Carty-Williams’s Queenie (2019): Challenging Discourses of Race and Gender in the Chick-Lit Genre
Candice Carty-Williams's best-selling debut novel Queenie (2019) has been marketed and reviewed as the story of a Black Bridget Jones. This comparison has been challenged by readers and critics alike, even though it was drawn by Carty-Williams herself. The fact that Carty-Williams chose a compa...
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International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR)
2023-02-01
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Series: | Journal of Popular Romance Studies |
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Online Access: | https://www.jprstudies.org/2023/02/a-black-bridget-jones-candice-carty-williamss-queenie-2019-challenging-discourses-of-race-and-gender-in-the-chick-lit-genre/ |