TYPES OF CHICK LIT

1. Classic Chick Lit

    These canonical works with Women as protagonists is rather tenuously related to the hip and hype girls of the modern chicklet; nevertheless, these classic novels may be considered to be the literary progenitors of the contemporary chick lit in their shared focus on women’s concerns – female subjectivity, independence, marriage and relationships, etc.

2. U.K. Lit

  Many of the genre’s defining works come from the United Kingdom. Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding, Rumor Has It by Jill Mansell and Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella are some of the prominent examples of this sub-genre.

3. Mommy Lit/ Hen Lit/Lady Lit

  The protagonists are often mothers or middle-aged women on the ‘wrong’ side of forty but show the same feisty sexy selves as the younger heroines of chick lit.

4. Mystery Lit

  These novels present their women-centered plots but by adding chill and thrill to the narratives. Their stories are often spiced up with murder and intrigue, and has surprise endings, a twist in the tale kind of end.

5. Bride Lit

 This kind of chick lit foregrounds marriage as the starting point of their stories and then to unravel how women negotiate the tricky grounds of balancing the demands of marraiage with their careers and professional ambitions.

6. Historical Lit

    These novels feature historical women as protagonists of their narratives. Some of them are based on real heroines from the historical past and others are entirely creations of the imagination, The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig, and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.

7. Working Girl Lit

    The setting of these stories is advertising, marketing or fashion designing high end brand companies. The struggle of female lead characters with demanding bosses, and crazy deadlines is highlighted along with their issues of love, sex and body weight.

8. Ethnic Lit

    Terry McMillan’s Waiting to Exhale which is a novel not about an American single white woman seeking a fairy-tale romance but about an experienced black woman opting for the reality of friendship. Other recent chick-lit novels present the lives, loves and friendships of American Indian women, those who are second-generation born in the USA. The study will include this sub-genre of chick lit in its examination of Indian chick lit. 9. Indian/ Desi chick lit: Thus, the genre of chick lit has proliferated to include an amazing variety of characters, settings and situations from diverse locations and different cultures. Each of these types of chick lit has modified the original prototype in new ways, both in form and subject matter. This has also testified to the resilience and adaptability of chick lit.

Reference:

https://www.sfscollege.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Soma-Final-MRP-Submission-03.06.2022.pdf?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3Jwdtg7Ewgu6Cz1k_w_P1Lode5eoQVbJSaG6Rpss11Ozs032NHnFb2csM_aem_AWp8lLwK9BPV9PNOZWQTfJYKpefbP5oqjhDasD2BO-PYgUkv6PpNlJ5W2hm8I92kRviOIcE08Cxp95m9XyDNk1ih


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