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BLOW ME Chick Lit Novel - Chapter 13 Excerpt
Los Angeles based litt/blogger/host Lennie Ross reads from Chapter 13 of her novel "Overstate d enlarge Me". The book is in the style of Sex In The ...
Gendering Fairy Tales: Or, the Difference Between Grimm and Once Upon a Time
In the fantastic of books, changing the gender of the protagonist apparently changes the genre; if it’s a woman, it’s chick lit, if it’s a man, it’s literary fiction. This shift can be seen across media and pop culture, where features about women are considered for women only. No one else could possibly be interested in a recounting about a female character’s coming of age, for instance, so it should be shelved with other books ‘for women.’
This set at odds means that books with male protagonists end up on bestseller lists and are nominated for literary prizes, while books with female protagonists and correspond to narratives are hidden in the back of the bookstore so they don’t offend delicate eyes. Raunchy books about men are spirit and bold, while raunchy books about women belong in the romance section; the same goes for narratives involving the flowering of exact love, or violence, or any number of other things. For a woman to appear in a story that will be nominated for a literary appreciate, she usually needs to be an object, not a person.
