Chick lit
Under Chick-Lit (literally about "Girls literature," mutatis mutandis "undemanding women's literature") refers to fiction literature , which is aimed at women and girls. The pejorative term comes from the American and is made up of the two words chick and lit , whereby chick is a slang and pejorative term for a young woman and lit is the abbreviation for literature .
Concept history
Chick-Lit established itself in the English-speaking world around 2000. Milestones in this literary genre are chocolate for breakfast by the author Helen Fielding and the book Sex and the city by the author Candace Bushnell , which served as the basis for the television series of the same name .
The novels of this literary genre are mostly about female main characters and their circle of friends in the milieu of the consumer-oriented middle and upper classes. The genre includes comedies , dramas , mysteries, and vampire novels .
Book trade
The American author Meg Wolitzer summed up the status of female writing in an essay for the Sunday Book Review of the New York Times in 2012 : the books of the female writers are always placed on the second shelf in bookshops for the not so important new publications, the Publishers have already decorated them with book covers that they would label as “chick lit”.
literature
- Annette Peitz: Chick lit: genre-constituting studies under Anglo-American influence. Peter Lang, Bern 2010
- Antje Althans, Ulrich Blumenbach : Professional customer: Once chick lit, always chick lit? In Translate , 2, 2018, p. 13 (also online from spring 2019)
Web links
- Paperback bestseller: Heartbreak with a happy ending guarantee in Spiegel Online
- Chick-Lit: entertainment literature for girls and young women on Deutschlandfunk
- Happy ending in Kulturspiegel , issue 7/2012
- Sandra Folie: chick lit - the new women's literature , dissertation blog
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meg Wolitzer: The Second Shelf. On the Rules of Literary Fiction for Men and Women , in: New York Times , March 30, 2012