Chick Lit and the Narrative Construction of Post-Feminist Femininities

这个项目探讨了女性在当代英国和爱尔兰流行的浪漫小说，特别是在最成功的submergre，小鸡文学叙事唤起。小鸡文学小说处理的个人，专业和浪漫的路线，以自我的女性主角，谁通常是22和40岁之间，生活在一个设置，被描绘为后女权主义，主要是城市。该项目的出发点是，它是特别受欢迎的文学体裁，其广泛的分布，影响社会建设的现实和饲料到社会话语（在意义上的M。福柯）。在本案例中，可以理解为小鸡文学小说是创造当代占主导地位的后女权主义，女性身份和行为的新自由主义模式，包括这些模式背后的权力关系的同谋。 该项目的目的是从文化研究和文学的角度分析这些小说产生和评价这些女性概念的真正叙事手段，以及使它们超越纯粹娱乐的所有意识形态偏见。该项目是对女性主义叙事学范式的贡献。然而，它并没有走上以往流行女性小说研究的道路，而是以女性形象为中心，以模仿或精神分析的文学观为研究对象。相反，这项研究的目的是从社会批评，社会学，话语分析和叙事学研究问题的链接;因此，它将重点转向探讨叙事的形式和模式如何成为文化功能和相关的性别相关的身份，真理和规范的建设。分析的语料库是第一个到达最近的现在。

This project inquires into the narrative evocation of femininities in contemporary British and Irish popular romance fiction, in particular in the most successful subgrenre, Chick Lit. Chick Lit novels deal with the personal, professional and romantic routes to selfhood of female protagonists, who are usually between 22 and 40 years of age and live in a setting that is portrayed as post-feminist, and mostly urban. The project starts from the contention that it is particularly popular literary genres with their wide distribution that influence social constructions of reality and feed into social discourses (in the sense of M. Foucault). In the present case, Chick Lit novels can be understood to be complicit in creating the dominant contemporary post-feminist, neo-liberal patterns of female identity and behaviour, including the power relations that underlie these patterns. The aim of the project is to analyse, from a cultural studies and literary perspective, the genuinely narrative means by which these novels produce and evaluate these conceptions of femininities, with all the ideological bias that situates them beyond mere entertainment. The project is a contribution to the paradigm of feminist narratology. However, it does not pursue the road of much previous research on popular women's fiction with its focus of images of women and its either quite mimetic or psychoanalytic conceptions of literature. Rather, the study aims to link from social criticism, sociological, discourse analytical and narratological research questions; thus, it will shift the focus towards an inquiry into how the forms and modes of narration become culturally functional and relevant in the construction of gender-related identities, truths, and normativities. The corpus of the analysis is the first to reach the most recent present.