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' In this essay, I use a close reading of Anita Heiss’s five chick lit novels to argue that racial identity profoundly affects the relationship between the chick lit novel and advice manual genre. In Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit, Caroline Smith contends that the chick lit novel critiques and satirizes regimes of female control through its engagement with the domestic advice manual. This relationship, however, does not always work in the way Smith assumes because the protagonist is not always white: she may be Latina, Chinese, South-East Asian, or, as Anita Heiss shows, Aboriginal Australian: Heiss’s fiction serves as an advice manual, designed to expose readers to the correct norms and behaviors for interacting with Australia’s First Peoples.'
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Contemporary Women's Writing
- Tiddas 2014 single work novel
- Not Meeting Mr Right 2007 single work novel
- Manhattan Dreaming 2010 single work novel
- Paris Dreaming 2011 single work novel
- Avoiding Mr Right 2008 single work novel
